I need to create Daily, Weekly and Monthly backup

[dmourghen]

Hello Everyone, 

Here is our scenario, 

Week A ==> Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs,Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Week B ==> Mon,Tues,Wed, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Last Sunday of the Month: - Monthly Backup of either week A or B.

We wish to setup Daily backup and assign each slot a Day.  E.g Mon=Slot 1, Tues, Slot 2.  After which it will need to make the backup each day but on the next following week, it will need to change to Week B.

We wish also that on every last Sunday either being on Week A or B, it makes up a full weekly backup.

Finally the last sunday of each month the montly backup.  depending which will be in the library. 

Can anyone guide us or is there any other better way of doing Daily, Weekly and Monthly but keeping in mind we need a minimum of 2 set of tapes.

Thanks

[pkh · Accepted solution]

BE does not care which tape it uses as long as it is suitable. See the document below http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO22313 If you want to use 2 set of tapes, then you just swap the tapes each week. This is no problem. For tape libraries, it is better to let BE have the freedom to choose a suitable tape rather than containing it to choose from a particular slot. See my article below https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/must-mondays-backup-be-monday-tape For your monthly backups, presumably you want to retain the tapes for a longer period so you need to create another media set with a longer OPP. You would also need to create a monthly backup job to use this media set