Any best practices for ARCserveIT?

[silver321]

Hi,
Currently, I am going to create a new backup strategy where the backup data is to be available for at least six months. I am using a tape library of seven slots.
Any advices?

 

[speshalyst]

HI,

This requires you to modify the Prune Job to delete records older than 6 months.

However, this will cause the ARcserve Database to grow
to a very large size and inturn vulnerable to many DB issues.


Cheers
Speshalyst So it Shall be Written!
So it Shall be Done!!

 

[gallas]

Hi, Why not setup a simple Grandfather,Father,Son system.
Grandfathers - monthly full backups - Clear archive bit
Fathers - weekly full backups - Clear archive bit
Son - daily incremental backup
Or did I miss something?

 

[NickFerrar]

It depends if you want to be able to restore something from any day with in that 6 month period.

Our backup scheme here is a daily full backup on a 2-week rotation. Aside from that we run separate monthly backups, these monthly backups are stored for 3 years (off-site) and the December monthly is kept as a yearly backup indefinetly.

This covers us for the restores we need to do but doesn't mean we can restore any day for 3 years. To do that you'd need to use a GFS type rotation the poster above suggested.

As for pruning, you don't need to save 6 months of records but if you prune shorter than a 6 month period you'll need to merge the tapes in to get the restore information before you can start a restore.