I think you will find that each business has certain requirements and
criteria on how to ensure the backups are carried out, implemented, setup
and in cases, ensure restores can be done.

Nothing wrong with this method - And again, seems to suit your needs.

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Markham [mailto:dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net] 
Sent: 26 April 2006 10:29
To: Wilkinson, Alex
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please]


I am surprised by the number of people using a single volume pool for data
backups. What about mixed retentions on media?

The way i do things is like this :-

Have a daily, weekly, monthly, offsite, logs tape pools ( as well as
netbackup, and none obviously )

Now whatever the policy and file list, clients etc i have a daily, weekly,
monthly schedule which has different expiry times on it. Dailys i expire
after 2 weeks, weeklys after 1 month and monthlys after 6 months. The volume
pool is associated with the schedule and then all images from different
policies are striped to tapes (mpx) to keep tape usage down and have the
same retention on media.

Weekly and monthly backups are then identified by tapes used in x hours for
a certain tape pool or schedule name once a week and removed from the
jukebox.

The offsite pool i have is for ITC where it is used and have the second job
write to an offsite pool which can then be identified daily and removed.
This offsite pool only has a retention of 2 weeks for any schedule which
runs as there is little point ( IMO ) of having 2 weeks old Disaster
recovery data. Tapes are then brought back into to scratch after this 2
weeks and reused.

The logs policy has a schedule which is infinite expiry as my customers
sometimes want to keep logs indefinitely and these are usually written by a
script on each client invoking bparchive or bpbackup with a list produced
from find command.

Each to there own, but there is what i do on a normal setup if you can find
any use from it.

Cheers


Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What is "best practice" with regards to Volume Pools ?
>
> We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our data 
> tapes. Is it good practice to use the "Netbackup" Volume pool for this 
> situation ?
>
>  -aW
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