Skip

 

We have had to setup a lot of different configurations for customers
depending upon their business requirements. 

 

Some customers have come up with bazaar reasons for their pool
configurations. You end up having a debate with a "die hard" "sock and
sandal" wearing SCO enthusiast. (My apologies if I have offended someone)

 

Some of these reasons include;

 

*         Different drive models within a silo

*         Different retention on clone pools

*         Snapshots (this was historical due to the Powersnap metadata
saveset's preventing media recycling)

*         Media retention (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Annual etc)

Some customers use LTO4 for daily's, the LTO5 tapes for Monthly. Cost
savings.

*         NetWorker archiving feature. (Yes one of our customers still uses
this feature)

*         WORM Tapes

*         Differentiating levels. i.e. Log backups every 1 hour with a short
retention policy

 

Regards

 

Richard 

      

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Skip Hanson
Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 9:40 a.m.
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Pools ?

 

All,

  Hello. I am curious how all of you are using pools today ? As we know
pools are very flexible and as a result can be very confusing. So I am
curious.

 

  1. Do you mix device types within the same pool ? (Disk and tape devices
?)

 

  2. Do you select multiple backup levels for one pool ? (incrementals and
fulls etc.)

 

  Please feel free to post you opinions on pools or send me a brief
description about how you use them.

 

  networker_usability AT emc DOT com<mailto:networker_usability AT emc DOT com>

 

Cheers,

Skip

 

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