01-10-2008 07:37 AM
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01-10-2008 10:59 AM
Pretty simple here, monthly full, daily incremental, both with 2 month retention.Full backup monthly - retained short term (say 2 months)
Incremenals daily - retained short term (2 months)
Run a 30 day incremental - which retains files modified over the past 30 days, and retain those for 'a long time'.So policy 2 should only need a single schedule, a monthly incremental backup with infinite retention.
01-10-2008 10:59 AM
01-10-2008 11:09 AM
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01-10-2008 11:18 AM
I'm not sure what problem you see. In Netbackup (unlike Networker if you're familiar with it), policies are independent. So the fact that your first policy may run a full in the meantime has no effect on your "long-term" policy.
@Casey Sterling wrote:
"Pretty simple here, monthly full, daily incremental, both with 2 month retention.
Then separate your other to a different policy:
Run a 30 day incremental - which retains files modified over the past 30 days, and retain those for 'a long time'."
that's the trick - that 'button' does not seem to exist as far as i cant tell (30 day incremental from mod date). i can run a cumulative at the end of the month before the full (in a diff sched or policy)...however...i CANT stop the full from running if the previous cumulative fails...which is important, as all the cumulatives/incs before the last one will have a shorter retention. which would 'hose up' my legal requirements. hence, the paranioa thread.
takes me back to bpbackup (script) or bpexpdate (script)...no biggie writing one...just annoying.
01-10-2008 11:41 AM
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01-10-2008 12:31 PM
So don't use the archive bit. No, I wasn't thinking of that possibility with my response. Most of my machines aren't Windows servers (most are NDMP appliances), so archive bits don't apply.
Are you sure about the statment:"I'm not sure what problem you see. In Netbackup (unlike Networker if you're familiar with it), policies are independent. So the fact that your first policy may run a full in the meantime has no effect on your "long-term" policy."The policies maybe independent, however if you are using the archive bit (like I do), that should not be true. For me, I have cumulatives going to 1 robotic and fulls going to another. So, in my case, I have 2 policies for 1 server.
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