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[Veritas-bu] Monthly backups for offsite storage

2000-06-27 10:22:54
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Monthly backups for offsite storage
From: David A. Chapa david AT datastaff DOT com
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:22:54 -0500 (CDT)
Quoting Terese Pelletier <terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com>:

> All,
>
> We are trying to develop a schedule for monthly 
(full) backups to send
> to offsite storage.  We would like to maintain our 
current schedule
> scheme of Mon-Thur incrementals and Fri fulls and add 
a monthly
> schedule.  Since there doesn't seem to be the monthly 
selection under
> frequency this is not as straight forward as we had 
hoped.
>
> We are concerned that the weekly Fri full backup will 
not allow a 4 week
> rotation to run.  We would really like something 
close to the first/last
> weekend of the month so that they can be labeled by 
month similar to our
> other backup schemes that are offsite.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Terese
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The schedules work based on a heirarchy...let me try to 
illustrate.  
M     T     W     Th    F
I1    I1    I1    I1    F7
I1    I1    I1    I1    F7
I1    I1    I1    I1    F7
I1    I1    I1    I1    F28
I1    I1    I1    I1    F7

What I am trying to display here are your incrementals 
running daily M-Th, with your Weekly Fulls on Friday 
(every seven days). Each time the NetBackup 
scheduler 'wakes up' to see what there is to do, it 
looks at the schedules, the frequencies and the length 
of time between the last backup of that particular 
schedule.  So if you have a Full Schedule that has a 
frequency of 28 days (F28-monthly), NetBackup will give 
that a higher priority than the F7 (full every seven 
days) when they happen to fall on the same backup day.  
NetBackup determines that it has seen this F7 schedule 
seven days ago, but it hasn't seen this F28 in over 28 
days, it will launch the backup with the F28 schedule.

make sense?

-David Chapa

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