Jeremy,
This is similar to my environment... I have shared scripts before and I
can send you some but our basic plan is this...
We backup everything to the VTL...
On Mondays I have a script that starts cloning from our main backup pool
everything that backed up starting between Saturday morning and Sunday
night... This goes to a clone set, getting the script to pick up the right
backup sets and get the parallelism high was not the easiest.
As a further plan on the 15th-17th of the month I have a script that
pushes anything left on the VTL older then 4 weeks old off to our longer
retention "Monthly" pool.
Hope that helps...
Alec
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:05 PM, jeremyt <networker-forum AT backupcentral DOT
com
> wrote:
> Hello--
>
> I have some questions about best practices for offsite rotation. I'm not
> new to Networker but setting up and defining an offsite rotation is new to
> me. Every other place I've worked at its always been defined, in place and
> a had published routine to follow.
>
> In my environment I have a VTL (EMC DL3D) with a large PTL (iScalar). I
> have my groups, pools and auto clone jobs (to the PTL) configured at the
> group level but am unsure on best practices for rotating the tapes out for
> offsite storage.
>
> Every client runs a full backup on one night of the week with incrementals
> running on the other 6 nights.
>
> I'm confused about when to rotate to offsite? Should I just send whatever
> tapes from the clone pool (all groups clone to the one pool) are full on the
> regular scheduled weekly pickup basis?
>
> Is there a better practice I'm missing or a better way to implement offsite
> rotation?
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all advice!
>
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