Arcserve 12 Backup Strategy - Permanent backup

[draganj]

Hi all,
I am trying to create "permanent backup" strategy in arcserve, but it seems that this software is not very well suited for that purpose. I have a tape library with autochanger and 20 slots.
This is what I am trying to accomplish:
1. Define groups of tapes which would keep different kind of data (images, videos...). It is important not to mix the data on the same tape.
2. Once written, data should never be purged from database or overwritten on tape.
3. All jobs would be manual full backups (I don't need rotation or scheduling) which would append data in to the selected tape group.

Is this possible to accomplish with arcserve?
I was looking into Media pools, but it seems that they are suited only for rotation or GFC schemes. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[fabio9]

In my experience...

do not create a media pool for this particular event, simply create a standard job, select "append to media", choose the appropriate destination,then select "run once" then run it.At the end of the job you'll see on top of "restore by session" the saved files, with no media pool. To manually run this job simply right click on it ad select "run now".

You should verify that "no media pool" status will not be purged from db, I do not remember.
In this case, anyway, the session itself will never be deleted, you can always merge it, even in case of total db corruption (merge by tape).

Hope this helps

 

[draganj]

Thanks, that is how I am currently doing backups. I was just hoping there is a way to organize (group) tapes better.

 

[fabio9]

I do not think there is a better way.
Arcserve is "media pool based", after all. Maybe netbackup, that is "policy based" and you can create what is called with this software a gold retention, can do it better, but it's (very) more complicated than bab, and more expensive too..

 

[davidmichel]

in the Device window create a group for each data type.

in the backup job use include filter for the type of file you want, and in destination point it to the correct group.