Hi Joe,
> I am trying to implement a simple monthly archive plan for my networker
> instance (7.3.2 on linux RH ES3). I am finding this a bit more troublesome
> than expected. I know there are some specific 'Archive Modules' that you
> can license seperately within networker, however for what I need to do I
> am not sure this is necessary.
>
> Within our Netbackup environment all I do is set up an archive pool which
> is part of the archive policy which is set to run on the first saturday of
> every month. Our normal daily policy is set not to run on these dates. I
> then take these Archive tapes off-site and keep them for a year.
It sounds that you're describing long-term backups, such as yearlies, rather
than archives. Bear in mind that the term "archival", when used with
backups, usually means at least one of the following connotations:
- No indices kept for the archive (i.e., it's restored completely or not at
all).
- Files 'archived' are deleted either immediately or after a set period of
time following the 'archive' operation.
- 'Archives' generated are stored for at least 10+ years.
That being aside, looking at your requirement from a simple yearly backup
perspective, what you're wanting to achieve should be relatively straight
forward:
> When I come to do this in networker there doesnt seem a way of
> automatically stopping my normal backups from running on the first
> saturday of the month and only running the Archive policy on that day. To
> me it sounds like it should be a simple enough task and its probably my
> inexperience of networker thats stopping me seeing the blidingly obvious !
You'll need to use schedule overrides. When you're editing schedules, you'll
note that you can turn off the "calendar" view. This lets you enter
"english-format override directives", for want of a better term.
For the schedule associated with your regular backups, you'll have an
override specified of:
skip first saturday every month
For the schedule associated with your long-term offsite backups, you'll have
an override scheduled of:
full first saturday every month
That schedule associated with the long-term offsite backups should for the
rest of the time just have a "skip" level associated with it, if I'm
understanding your requirements/goals correctly.
Cheers,
Preston de Guise.
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