-- Original question:

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.

I would like to thank everyone who responded.  This question generated a
lot of good discussion.

What we determined was the best course of action for us was to set up a
new schedule (ie offsite) that runs a full backup every 4 weeks.  If it
has not been 4 weeks since the offsite schedule last ran, our weekly
full backup (kept onsite) runs.

The only problem we encountered was with our desktop backups.  With the
above configuration, if a system was missed for whatever reason (turned
off, etc), NetBackup will run an offsite backup the next time it can
access the system.  This is a problem only because we are trying to get
a set of tapes to send offsite in a particular timeframe.  We correct
this issue by setting up a new class for desktop offsite backups that
runs every 4th Sunday.  If we miss a desktop system so be it.

There were a lot of suggestions that required a more manual process than
we desired.

Thanks again to all.
Terese
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