Re: [Networker] Staging only the full backups

Take a look at the nsrstage command. its easy to script to migrate the
savesets you specify, using mminfo into a tekst file.

Just make sure you can hold a full month of incremental + at least 1 full
backup on your disk device.
I would still setup a pool for the automatic migration proccess to use in
case the disk device runs full for one reason or another.

the staging policies would look something like:
High water mark 90%
Low water mark 75%
saveset selection oldest savesets
max storage period 30 days

After a full backup is run you run the mminfo query to find the SSID's og
the savesets pipe them into a tekst file which is then used as input for
the nsrstage command.

if all goes well you should have it up an running in no time.


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Joseph Mesterhazy <jmesterh AT IASTATE DOT EDU>
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Hello,

I have a question regarding staging. We just set up a 4TB disk array,
and I am backing that up as a file_adv type device, with monthly full
and daily incremental. I then I have that setup to stage to a tape
jukebox. I am under the impression that networker will just migrate the
save sets off the RAID, to the tape, then expire the corresponding RAID
save set.

I am wondering if it is possible to stage only the full backup sessions
to the tape jukebox, leaving out the incremental backups. My goal is to
use the RAID for people that lost data in the immediate past, and keep
the tapes as monthly snapshots. I know you can do something like this
with the Archiving feature, but we do not have a license for that. We
have a couple thousand users so the incremental backups can be quite
large, and I would like to save cost of tape by only storing full
backups.

Any ideas on how to go about this?

Thanks,

Joe

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