EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
06/27/2008 06:37:26 AM:

> On Jun 27, 2008, at 4:20 AM, Elvis Ademba wrote:
> 
> > Dear All.
> >
> > I write to find where i can get sample / generic information backup 
> > policy.
> 
> Elvis;
> 
> For most clients where I work, we have three months retention period 
> with all of it browsable, once a week full backup (a few just monthly 
> fulls) and daily incrementals (a few differentials). Keep in mind that 
> any backup policy needs to reflect the business needs of the 
> organization who owns the data being backed up. 

In my case, except for 2 instances (my SAN, which is reaching close to 
1TB, and another client that has a multi-hundred G flat-file copy of a 
database), we do fulls every night. At some point soon, I may have to 
change that. I hate incrementals; I do differentials on the 2 mentioned 
above (well, I do NetWorker level 1, which effectively works out to be the 
same thing).

We do 2 month retention/2 month browse; for certain things like mail and 
the SAN, I have 1 year retention, but only 2 months browse.

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