Do you manually recycle tapes?  Or do you have Networker do this
automatically?

Thanks.
Teresa

"Shelley L. Shostak" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Teresa Biehler wrote:
>
> > Subject: [Networker] Schedules - how do I do this?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We're in the process of revising our retention policy.  We'd like to
> > implement the following:
> >
> > o Daily backups are kept for a month (these are mostly incrementals, but
> > there are some clients that do full backups daily)
> >
> > o Weekly backups are kept for a quarter
> >
> > o Monthly or Quarterly (not sure which yet) are kept for a year
> >
>
> Theresa,
>
> We have a similar setup.
>
> Create three separate pools, one for daily, weekly and monthly (I call mine
> FULL, DIFF and INCR).  This allows you to sort data on tapes by retention
> policy and you can recycle the dailys within a month.  For schedules, I
> separate my clients into four categories.  We stagger the weekend that a full
> is done so that we even the load on the server over four weekends.  I have
> four schedules, full-week-1, full-week-2, full-week-3, full-week-4.  Each
> schedule does a full on one Saturday, level 5s on the other Saturdays and
> level 9/incr (NDMP/non NDMP) on every other day.  Each client then uses one of
> these schedules to determine the backup level each day.  To make tape
> recycling more flexible, we only use one barcode scheme.  That way I can
> recycle a daily tape to the full pool without removing the barcode/label.
>
> Shelley

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