Re: scheduling questions
2005-02-23 16:49:36
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of David Soucy
>I was wondering if some of you could share your scheduling strategies.
>For most nodes, I just use a standard daily incremental
>schedule. The problem is that we have to keep all of our data
>for year. So, for some servers I am keeping 365 versions of a file.
>
> I am trying to figure out a way to keep up to 14 days of
>daily backups, then maybe I keep a weekly backup for 6 months
>and I keep a monthly backup for a year. I'm pretty sure I
>need at least 3 schedules to do this, but do I need to
>register 3 node names too?
Piece of cake. Use archives for your long-term backups. Create a weekly
archive client schedule with a six-month retention, and a monthly
archive schedule with a year's retention. You'll end up with one
nodename and three schedules, all associated with the one nodename.
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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627
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