If you have two drives you can create a duplicate of you full backup for
sending offsite.  See page 317 and 438 of the SAG.  Then you will still
have the weekly full onsite.  The duplicate would also not add any time to
your backup window.   You can automate this in cron with the bpduplicate
command.

Jason Yarrington
Worldstreet Corp.





"David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>@Eng.Auburn.EDU on 06/27/2000
10:22:54 AM

Please respond to "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>

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To:   Terese Pelletier <terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com>
cc:   veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject:  Re: [Veritas-bu] Monthly backups for offsite storage


Quoting Terese Pelletier <terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com>:

> All,
>
> We are trying to develop a schedule for monthly
(full) backups to send
> to offsite storage.  We would like to maintain our
current schedule
> scheme of Mon-Thur incrementals and Fri fulls and add
a monthly
> schedule.  Since there doesn't seem to be the monthly
selection under
> frequency this is not as straight forward as we had
hoped.
>
> We are concerned that the weekly Fri full backup will
not allow a 4 week
> rotation to run.  We would really like something
close to the first/last
> weekend of the month so that they can be labeled by
month similar to our
> other backup schemes that are offsite.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Terese
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The schedules work based on a heirarchy...let me try to
illustrate.
M     T     W     Th    F
I1    I1    I1    I1    F7
I1    I1    I1    I1    F7
I1    I1    I1    I1    F7
I1    I1    I1    I1    F28
I1    I1    I1    I1    F7

What I am trying to display here are your incrementals
running daily M-Th, with your Weekly Fulls on Friday
(every seven days). Each time the NetBackup
scheduler 'wakes up' to see what there is to do, it
looks at the schedules, the frequencies and the length
of time between the last backup of that particular
schedule.  So if you have a Full Schedule that has a
frequency of 28 days (F28-monthly), NetBackup will give
that a higher priority than the F7 (full every seven
days) when they happen to fall on the same backup day.
NetBackup determines that it has seen this F7 schedule
seven days ago, but it hasn't seen this F28 in over 28
days, it will launch the backup with the F28 schedule.

make sense?

-David Chapa

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