Hi All,
first some statistics:
Veritas NetBackup 6.5.3
Quantum i500 Tapelibrary
Separate Master-, Media- and BMR Bootserver
At the moment we perform 4 daily incremental backups (mo-tu-wed-thu evening)
Our Weekly full backup kicks in at Friday-evening and runs through in the weekend.
All backups have an infinite retention, due to compliancy-demands.
Like many other companies, we too have to observe savings.
So my manager drew a plan to change the retention-periods, in order to be able to reuse tapes.
All incremental backups get an retention period of 3 months.
This applies for the full weekend backups as well, except for :
- the backups being made each first friday+weekend of the month, they get a retention period of 12 months
- the backup being made each first friday+weekend of the year, that one gets an infinite retention.
What is a smart way of making the correct schedules without having to use the built-in calendar and making exceptions from policies ?
Kind regards,
Jaap Hartog