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Re: [Networker] Schedules

2005-04-13 01:26:32
Subject: Re: [Networker] Schedules
From: CurtisE <CurtisE AT CURTISE DOT NET>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:29:44 -0700
If you are worried about minimizing dependency on your (less frequent)
fulls, another option (level) to consider is consolidation.  It does a new
level 1, then combines that with the full that the level 1 is based on, to
create a new full.  It's primarily intended for backing up remote clients on
expensive/slow WAN links, but I've also seen it used for large local clients
with mostly static data.  Warning - It's slow and resource intensive on the
NetWorker server/library, has several other limitations and drawbacks.  Do
your research before trying it.  That being said, consolidation is something
to consider if it fits the situation...

CurtisE

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion
[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Dave Mussulman
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:37 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Schedules


On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:10:27PM -0400, Neild, Jim wrote:
> Just wanted to see how people have their schedules configured for
> various types of backups (system states and drive, exchange, sql, etc.).
> In particular, I was wondering how people use Backup levels (i.e.
> F,I,I,I,I,I,I or F,1,1,1,1,1,1 or F,1,2,3,4,5,6 etc) in their schedules.
>
>
> I currently run a lot of my groups with F,I,I,F,I,I,I and was thinking
> about removing the second full during the week but I am a little
> paranoid about having a bad level FULL tape.
>
> Any input would be helpful.

We found that most of our full backups were cold, unused data so we
don't run them as often.  It might open us up to some data loss on a bad
full tape, but we can probably get most of that data back through
incremental recovers or older fulls.  (But we also just jumped up from
DLT7 to LTO3, and with that much data on a tape we might rethink these
policies.)

We do a full every quarter, a 3 every month, a 5 every weekend, and an
incremental daily.

Dave

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