Tape Rotation

[Gera]

Hi everybody,

How can I do a tape rotation policy, what does mean off-site backups?

Thank you.

[Karthikeyan_Sun]

You do like below ( Can differr based on your enviroment Retentions):

3 Incrementals Sets- INCR-A INCR-B INCR-C

5 Weekly Sets- Weekly-A Weekly-Duplicate-A Weekly-B Weekly-Duplicate-B Weekly-C Weekly-Duplicate-C Weekly-D Weekly-Duplicate-D Weekly-E Weekly-Duplicate-E

2 Monthly Sets- MOA MDA MOB MDB

3 Quarterly Sets- QOA QDA QOB QDB QOC QDC

1 Yearly Set - YOA YDA

Offshore-Site Backup: 2 Coipes of Backup send to 2 Different Off site Locations, Any Disaster Can be Recovered using the Off Site Backup!

[ja290]

Depends on what your requirements are. We have no long-term retention requirements, so I just duplicate a set of full backups to an alternate media pool once/week and send those tapes off-site. This has the side effects of keeping my original backups on-site in case I need to do a quick restore, and serves as a read-check of those backups.

[Gera]

My headache is how to mark the tape who sill be sent off-site

It is just to move tapes to standalone drive?

First two drives was moved in this way, after that robot failed and was changed, first move afer replace failed.  Is there a relationship between this two issues?

Regards