Wow... that is actually a GREAT idea...

LTO3 for daily/weekly
LTO4 for Weekly/monthly
LTO5 for Monthly/Forever

I never thought of that... Of course you may have to base that on how
many of each drive type you have and how much of each data type you need
to backup, etc.

P.S. LOL everyone knows SCO guys don't wear socks. Not that there is
anything wrong with that. /grin

Semper fidelis et paratus, /ALE


-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Richard Hoare
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:52 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Pools ?

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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