We have daily incs, weekly and Quarterly backups. We had to use calendar
based scheduling for our quarterlies because any new servers added to a
schedule automatically run the quarterly schedule on the first weekend
after they are added. We want all servers to do a quarterly on the same
weekend though as those tapes are kept indefinitely.

We would prefer not to use calendar based schedules due to the ongoing
maintenance requirements but couldn't see any way around it at the time.




-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of bob944
Sent: Tuesday, 23 May 2006 4:02 pm
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; 'Eric Ljungblad'
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 'Frequency' schedule type

> I used Frequency for years, I highly suggest Mastering the Calendar 
> Based Scheduling, it is much better than Frequency scheduling I have 
> found.  It rocks. Specially if you have

To each his own.  Glad it's doing the job for you; my experience has
been that it's useful when there's a need to match some date-oriented
business process:  backups on the last day of the month, for instance.
_Very_ useful there.

> different retentions per full backups, IE: Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly,

> Yearly. I have schedules configured for the Next 3 years. It works 
> Very well and much better than Frequency scheds for our Department.

Well, five minutes setting up five frequency-based schedules gives me a
configuration for that Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Yeary and a daily
differential thrown in for free--and it never has to be touched again.  

I don't have a system handy, but

Name             Frequency   Retention   Window
diff               1 day       2 weeks     daily  2100-0300
full             1 week      1 month     Fr, Sa 2100-0300
full-monthly     1 month     3 months    Fr, Sa 2100-0300
full-quarterly   3 months    1 year      Fr, Sa 2100-0300
full-annual      1 year      3 years     Fr, Sa 2100-0300

The Friday/Saturday on the fulls is only because many people freak at
the idea of fulls running during the week--ideally, I'd have all
schedules on all days.  Piece o' cake.  Every day there's not a full,
there's a diff.  Every weekend, whatever full is appropriate runs.  Zero
maintenance.


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