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Grandfather, Father, Son backups with hard drive

keithslater
Level 2

Is it possible to use SSR to do grandfather, father, son backups with hard drives? We are looking at using one of the system from high-rely.com to back up to. I'm used to using a tape autoloader to do the GFS and I'm not even sure if it's possible to do it any other way. Anyone have suggestions?

I don't necessarely need a full GFS backup. Maybe just a yearly, 1 recycled monthly and 1 recycled weekly.

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Markus_Koestler
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Have you already had a look at SSR User guide ? I think you could do this by scheduling independent recovery points at the various points in time.

Dave_H1
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Yes it can do that, Symantec uses the term "incremental" backps.

Grandfather would be a full independant image, left alone and untouched.

Father would be a monthly "base image" that it kept updated by a weekly "Son" incremental.  The schedule can be set to recycle the space by deleting the monthly father and 4 sons as soon as the next base image is created. You can keep as many of those backup sets as space provides.  Unlike doing a tape restore you only need to do one restore, you choose the image to restore and SSR will put together the father and all the sons for you.

Dave

Markus_Koestler
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Would you please mark this post as solved ?