All,
If you think back to the original idea behind volume pools it
might help understand where they come into play. The idea was to segregate tapes
into separate pools based on business units so that the cost of tapes could be
tied to a specific unit. For example if the Accounting department needed 100
tapes they would either buy them or pay the infrastructure team to buy them and
these would be their tapes. If the HR department need data backed up they would
buy their tapes and neither the twain would meet. I don’t know if this little
history lesson was of any use, but I’ve got nothing better to do at the
moment any way. J
Regards,
Patrick Whelan
VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX.
VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for Windows.
netbackup AT whelan-consulting.co DOT uk
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dean
Sent: 20 April 2009 11:00
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Mixing POlicy Types in a Volume Pool
> Has anyone had any issues
with not being able to do a successful restore when mixing policy types within
a volume pool?
No. And if your full and diff backups have different retention periods, they
will end up on different tapes anyhow, even if they are going to the same pool
(assuming you don't have "Allow multiple retentions per media"
enabled).
We have just 3 pools. "onsite", "offsite" and
"archivelogs". The "offsite" pool gets ejected every
morning and given to a man with a truck. We direct Oracle archivelog backups to
their own pool because we DON'T want them on the same tapes as the database
backups. Everything else gets mixed in together.
Cheers,
Dean
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM, stu52 <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
wrote:
I have an interesting situation. I am coming into a NBU 6.5.3 environment
where the current backup admin has several volume pools. For example, he
has set up the following:
- Exchange-Full
- Exchange-Diff
- Sharepoint-Full
- Sharepoint-Diff
- Oracle-Full
- Oracle-Diff
I would like to just narrow this down to two volume pools:
- Full
- Diff
The reason for the Full & the Diff volume pools is to have the data
segregated by data retention.
His reason for not doing this is that he claims that if the volume pools are
not segregated by Policy Type, the restores will not work properly even though
the backup was successful.
Has anyone had any issues with not being able to do a successful restore when
mixing policy types within a volume pool?
thanks.
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