As far as your script goes I have no comment since all of or groups are
set to automatically clone. On the rare occasions when I need to do a
manual clone I just use the GUI.
I practically never remove anything from the Networker index manually.
I just let Networker handle that automatically.
Our regular rotations is to do incrementals 6 days a week and a full
every weekend. We send the clones from these off-site 5 days a week.
We have enough tapes (both backup and clone) in the rotation for about 8
weeks of backups and when we reach the end of that period I just
manually re-label the oldest regardless of their "expired" status. So
every work day I take the clones from the previous days backup out and
our off-site provider picks them up. Every day they bring back the
clones I sent off 5 weeks before. Every week I re-label enough backup
and clone tapes for the next weeks worth of backup (with some cushion in
case of extraordinary demand).
At our fiscal month end (we do a 4-4-5 so it's almost always a Friday)
we do a special full backup with databases and the e-mail server shut
down. For this we send the original backup off-site and keep the clone.
The reason for this is that this backup is kept as an archive and the
fact that a clone was made from it is confirmation of the readability of
the tapes.
Hopefully I answered your questions but feel free to ask for
clarification.
Dave
David Werth
Garmin AT, Inc
Salem, Oregon
dave.werth<at>garmin.com
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Weiner, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:02 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Cloning Backups
Thanks for the response, sorry for the huge delay in getting back with
you on this but I had a follow-up question or two in regards to the
cloning. We are doing the same thing - taking a monthly full and then
doing a clone, and sending that clone set off-site with Iron Mountain.
Is it necessary or even desired to remove the clone set from the index
at all?
We will be rotating a set of clone tapes monthly 1 - keeping one set at
Iron Mountain while the other set resides in the tape library getting
ready to be used in the cloning process.
For what its worth I am basically using the following to get things
moving, script-wise:
/usr/sbin/nsr/mminfo -s localhost -r "ssid" -q
"level=full,pool=MCarray,savetime>=4 weeks
ago,name=/export/array,name=/export/local" > $SSIDLOG
/usr/sbin/nsr/nsrclone -vvv -s localhost -b "MCarray Clone" -S -f
$SSIDLOG
This is 6.1.Build.186 Solstice Backup just for completeness.
Thanks for all the help from all who responded earlier.
Michael
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