07-17-2016 02:50 AM
Hi
Current environment:
Both media servers are taking backups in their respective DC`s, and then they replicate the data through AIR to eachother. To achieve this i have created an SLP, which look likes this:
I have a taperobot connected to the Netbackup environment in Main DC. So what i am trying to achieve now is to create another duplication to tape, once a month for long term retention. So this duplication is going to run only once a month, and will have a different retention, for data from both mediaservers.
Here are some questions i have:
And to make the situation even worse, i also have a Forced rescan schedule setup to run every 6 months. If i end up creating new schedule for monthly backups, wonder what will happen if full, forced rescan and monthly all kicks at the same time. My understanding is that is uses the one with longest frequency which in this case would be forced rescan (6months).
Would appreciate some help here, thanks.
07-18-2016 05:34 AM
Hi,
Create monthly SLP in Prod and use it in both the monthly and six monthly schedules.
Backup
Replicate
Create monthly SLP in DR
Import
Duplicate (tape)
07-18-2016 05:54 AM
I will answer question 3:
How will i be able to track the media used for this duplication, what about the eject report?
You cannot do that with SLP.
SLP can replace the Duplication portion of a Vault profile but cannot perform ejects and offsite management of tapes.
You still need Vault if you have a requirement for these functions.
07-18-2016 07:31 AM
Hi
That would work for the data from DR. But for the data on our main DC, i would have to create a monthly SLP something like this:
Backup
Duplicate to tapedrive (with 1 year retention) (will only use this for the Full_month schedule)
No replication will be needed to DR site, as we have a copy on tape for 1 year already. I would also need to create a new schedule called Full_month and chose to Override the policy storage selection, and selecting this SLP instead. Only concern i had was, what would happen when all thre schedules, (full, Full_6month_forced_rescan, and Full_month_tape will kick in. My understanding is that it will then do as follows:
In a scenario like one mentioned above, i will at worse have monthly duplication to tape delayed by 1 week. I dont see any other issues otherwise.
07-18-2016 07:32 AM
Hi
I have heared you can generate a similar report from the OpsCenter. Dont know how effective it is. You have any experience with that?