Advise for implementing complex config needed

[mitya]

Hello!
We are using Networker version 7.3.

I am going to implement the following backup scheme:

1) Do daily backups of clients and keep data for two weeks.
Full on saturday and incremental on other days.
2) Take FULL backups once a month and keep them for 1 year.

In order to archieve 2) and do NOT want to make another
backup from clients (once a month with retention=1 year) but I want to utilize data already present on my storage nodes which was taken in step 1).

How can I archieve this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[NWNinja]

You could just change the retention policy of the last backup taken every month using "nsrmm -e 1-year -S ssid/cloneid".
You could perhaps have a AT/crontab job that runs the last sunday of every month. Use mminfo to list the ssid´s/cloneid´s that are level full and newer then 2-days-ago and then run nsrmm.

Cheers!
Maverick

 

[mitya]

Thanks for your reply!

Are there any other solutions (probably utilizing
staging, cloning or archiving facilities) to do this
automatically by EBS software?

 

[mitya]

BTW, it would be nice to move these full backups to another pool.

 

[605]

Actually, what you might want to try is save set consolidation, a feature very rarely used. Please see the Admin Guide for further information.

 

[mitya]

Using consolidation feature will result in a level 1 backup to be performed.

Is there any chance to relocate the existent FULL backup
to another pull without any requests to client machines?

Thanks!

 

[605]

Sure, you just have to stage it.

 

[mitya]

Thanks for your help!

But could your please reread the whole thread?
As far as I understand, staging does not change retention policy for save sets.

But I need to set up two pools:
first with retention for 2 weeks with daily backups;
second with retention for 1 year with FULL backups taken monthly.

And I want to populate second pool without access to clients machines. The data should be taken from the first pool.

Probably I am missing something.

Thanks again!

 

[605]

If you only want to keep one of your saturday fulls for longer, 7.3 is perfect. As you now can assign a policy to a pool, simply clone these save sets to such pool.


If you want to create a new mothly full from your existing backups, this will not work. As you said correctly, you must run at least a level 1 backup if you use consolidation.