I'm just starting to play with Fastback for Exchange (or fastback in general for that matter).
I've got a FastBack server up and running and attached to our test exchange server and have been very pleased with the test results so far.
What I'm curious about, is can I do Daily/Weekly/Monthly backups with FastBack and keep them for long term storage? We have some pretty large retention policies for our data (outlined below) and I'd like to be able to do all of this for Exchange with FastBack (due to the ease of restore).
Daily - Kept for 7 days (Monday - THrusday)
Weekly - Kept for 28 days (taken of Friday)
Monthly - Kept for 1 year (Taken on the 1st of the month)
Yearly - kept forever - I'd do this one with a TSM for Exchange job...
I'm wondering if I can use FB to do these backups...
Daily - Incremental backups - don't get rid of logs
Weekly- Full backup - get rid of logs
Monthly - full backup - get rid of logs
Yearly - TSM full backup
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I'm pretty sure I can't store all of this data on my TSM server, and I haven't started to explore the DR settings yet (no DR Hub, would like to use TSM as my DR system).
Anyone know how this might work, or should I stick to Daily backups via FB and Monthly backups via TSM (we're not doing weeklies now, just 30 days of Daily backups).
Your thoughts Ladies and Gentlemen?
I've got a FastBack server up and running and attached to our test exchange server and have been very pleased with the test results so far.
What I'm curious about, is can I do Daily/Weekly/Monthly backups with FastBack and keep them for long term storage? We have some pretty large retention policies for our data (outlined below) and I'd like to be able to do all of this for Exchange with FastBack (due to the ease of restore).
Daily - Kept for 7 days (Monday - THrusday)
Weekly - Kept for 28 days (taken of Friday)
Monthly - Kept for 1 year (Taken on the 1st of the month)
Yearly - kept forever - I'd do this one with a TSM for Exchange job...
I'm wondering if I can use FB to do these backups...
Daily - Incremental backups - don't get rid of logs
Weekly- Full backup - get rid of logs
Monthly - full backup - get rid of logs
Yearly - TSM full backup
--
I'm pretty sure I can't store all of this data on my TSM server, and I haven't started to explore the DR settings yet (no DR Hub, would like to use TSM as my DR system).
Anyone know how this might work, or should I stick to Daily backups via FB and Monthly backups via TSM (we're not doing weeklies now, just 30 days of Daily backups).
Your thoughts Ladies and Gentlemen?