Networker

Re: [Networker] Archiving

2007-04-03 17:55:04
Subject: Re: [Networker] Archiving
From: Preston de Guise <enterprise.backup AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:52:31 +1000
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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