We have been playing with the OST plugin for our data domain appliances and have just started looking into using the optimized duplication offering to replicate data between an OST storage unit on Data Domain 1 and another OST storage unit on Data Domain 2.
When configuring the Storage Lifecycle Policy, it appears that it is no longer possible to have more than 1 retention period set for the data at each stage of the duplication process. There is 1 retention period for the data written to the ‘backup’ target in the SLP and another retention period set for the ‘duplication’ target.
Currently, the policy we use to backup this host (and many other hosts) has a 2 month retention on weekly fulls and a 2 week retention on daily fulls. With SLP’s it seems that having multiple schedules within a backup policy will no longer be possible unless we have a separate backup policy for each schedule and a separate SLP for each backup policy.
Any ideas ?
Mark Glazerman
Enterprise Storage Administrator
Spartech Corporation
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