Hi Will,
I would create folders for yearly, daily, weekly and monthly. With this you would create your media sets, and then you can direct your jobs to the specific folders. It's kind of like partitioning a library...same concept. You obviously have to create them on the necessary drives, using the technote above.
This means your jobs are directed to specific folders, and you will know where to pick up your data manually. I wouldn't worry too much about creating multiples of each folder...don't forget if your OPP and append periods are correct, you won't be overwriting the previous week's daily jobs for instance. My thoughts are always to keep things manageable and simple. If you move on, and someone else takes over, it is going to look like a mess. General admin of the backup system also becomes a bit of a nightmare if it is not carefully looked after.
for your Yearly backup, you can create a separate job and run it on a specific day. You might want to consider adding it to your GFS policy as a seperate job, and then create a rule so that the Yearly job runs instead of the Monthly job...
Again...with the policy, you can do this with 1 GFS policy. It's going to create them as Monthly (first in the wizard), Weekly, and then Daily. You just select the type of backup (Full, Full, Incremental), and the wizard does the rest.
Hope this helps...?
Laters!
