Hi. Those of you who are writing backups to EDL: What do you do about backups that need retention times longer that 2-3 months? Are you storing backups for longer than 3 months on EDL? What are alter
We don't store any data on edl longer than 2 weeks, so my browse and retention times are set to 2 weeks. But we clone to physical tapes daily. The pool that it's cloned to has the retention times set
I set my long retention in NW like normal 13 months or 4 weeks. All my backups land on the EDL... I run a script on Mondays to *push* all data older then 4 weeks off of the EDL onto tape. For non-NDM
Here is the script I'm using to find those recycleable EDL tapes... I've not had to complete the NDMP portion so ignore that dead end bit of code, 'if [ $POOL -eq "DailyEDL" ]; then', prevents the ND