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[Veritas-bu] Vaulting Question

2007-05-17 13:58:57
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Question
From: pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Keating)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:58:57 -0400
Good question.

I do not know.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Whittaker [mailto:Kevin.Whittaker at syniverse.com] 
> Sent: May 17, 2007 1:56 PM
> To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Question
> 
> 
> Thanks for the information, must have missed that!
> 
> But I can't use that in my environment, due to the fact that 
> I would use too many tapes to go offsite
> 
> My 1 Month offsite retentions all fit on 3 tapes, and I have 
> my profile set for 3 drives
> My 2 Month offsite retentions all fit on 2 tapes, and I have 
> my profile set to 2 drives 
> My 2 Week offsite retentions all fit on 9 to 12 tapes, and I 
> have my profile set to 8 drives (have to leave a couple for 
> standard backups and restores)
> 
> So, if I created one profile with 8 drives used, wouldn't it 
> send off 8 for 1 month, 8 for 2 month and 9 to 12 for 2 week? 
>  If so, I can't send off that many tapes... I will run out.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Keating [mailto:pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:48 PM
> To: Kevin Whittaker; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Question
> 
> In the duplication tab within the vault profile, configure 
> retention to be "use mappings"
> It's the last item in the list.
> 
> create a file called:
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db/vault/retention_mappings
> 
> and in the file, you create entries with two columns of 
> numbers The column on the left is the original backups 
> retention level, and the column on the right is the 
> "duplicated image's" retention level.
> 
> so f'rinstance, since retention level 0 is a week, 1 is 2 
> weeks, 2 is 3 weeks and 3 is a month.
> 
> if you want the original 1 week backup to be duped and kept 
> for 1 month, the first line of tyou mapping file would be:
> 0    3
> 
> if you want your original backup with 2 weeks retention duped 
> and kept for a year, your next line would be:
> 1    8
> 
> and so on.
> 
> if you want all your original backup kept for 1 week, and all 
> the dupes to be different, you would use the "unassigned" 
> retention levels in NBU to create many "1 week" retention levels.
> 
> ie, retention 10, 11, 12, and 13 are all set to be one week, 
> then you map level 10 to 1 year, level 11 to 2 years, etc.
> The each of your backup profiles would spec the retention 
> level to be the numeric retention level that maps to the 
> appropriate "final"
> retention.
> 
> check the Vault admin guide, page 121
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Kevin Whittaker
> Sent: May 17, 2007 1:26 PM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Question
> 
> 
> Richard, 
> What version of Vault do you have?  I am running 5.1 MP3 and 
> there is no
> retention mapping within each vault profile. 
> I have to create a profile for each offsite retention period. 
> Just as an FYI, I use a KORN script to run all my vaulting, 
> since I also
> inject my tapes and run other cleanup work. 
> Kevin 
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