Andy,
We are using BESR 2010 (9.0.0.35656) on a Dell server with a RD1000 removeable drive. We are rotating cartridges every day, Monday-Saturday. There is one cartridge for each work day, and there are 4 cartridges for Saturdays which rotate throughout the month. To make sure I'm understanding you correctly, we should set up a different task for each cartridge, so a task to run only on Mondays would run on Monday's cartridge, a seperate task to run only on Tuesdays would run on Tuesday's cartridge, etc. Do I need to have the corresponding cartridge in the drive when I set up that day's task?
I'm not at this office everyday, and the backups are working so long as we don't forget to cleanup the cartridges. I want BESR to manage the cleanup for me because the girls that work at that office often forget and don't say anything until the backups have failed several times because the cartridges are full.
If I have seperate tasks for each cartridge, can I have it automatically handle the cleanup of the cartridges?
I tried setting this up, but it will not let me create a schedule for, say, the second Saturday of every month. I can either do it on every Saturday, which means I might have a problem if we're switching disks, or on a specific day of the month, which means I would have to manually change that every month, which of course is ridiculous.
Weekday backups are File Backups, and the Saturday backups are Full Backups (Independant Recovery Points).
Sorry this is a lot of questions all at once on an old thread. If there's a better way to set this up, please let me know. Right now we are only doing local backups, but I am working on an off-site backup solution. We are backing up patient records, so we really don't need any restore points beyond the most recent one. The multiple disks are just for a crazy amount of redundancy, which is probably overkill in some respects, but falls short in others, so if you can recommend a better method of doing this, I would appreciate it greatly.
-Cevin
