I was just curious if anyone knows of a way to perhaps automate or schedule the addition or removal of autochanger slots from a tape group. I can do it manually, but it would be one less administrative step if I could automate it.
To explain briefly what is going on, we perform full backups of all of our servers once a week and send them to off site storage. Monday through Friday we perform incrementals of all of the servers, plus backup a large number of workstations throughout the week. My goal is to have five tapes that never leave the autochanger, each of which contains a separate week of incrementals and PC backups. What I would be doing is sending a whole weeks worth of incremental backups plus my PC backups to a tape group that has slot 1 of my autochanger as a member. Then once the week is complete, remove slot one from the group and add slot two so the second week worth of backups writes to a separate tape. Then remove two and add three at the end of that week, etc. until you get to the end of week 5 at which point it adds slot one back and repeats the process.
From what I've seen, I really can't accomplish this with media pools because there are multiple jobs involved during the week and you'd get into sharing media pools and lots of ugliness there, and just having all five slots in the group and letting it span tapes isn't an option because I really need each tape to be its own separate week.
So, does anyone have any any ideas on automating this, or any other ways of doing this I haven't thought of?
To explain briefly what is going on, we perform full backups of all of our servers once a week and send them to off site storage. Monday through Friday we perform incrementals of all of the servers, plus backup a large number of workstations throughout the week. My goal is to have five tapes that never leave the autochanger, each of which contains a separate week of incrementals and PC backups. What I would be doing is sending a whole weeks worth of incremental backups plus my PC backups to a tape group that has slot 1 of my autochanger as a member. Then once the week is complete, remove slot one from the group and add slot two so the second week worth of backups writes to a separate tape. Then remove two and add three at the end of that week, etc. until you get to the end of week 5 at which point it adds slot one back and repeats the process.
From what I've seen, I really can't accomplish this with media pools because there are multiple jobs involved during the week and you'd get into sharing media pools and lots of ugliness there, and just having all five slots in the group and letting it span tapes isn't an option because I really need each tape to be its own separate week.
So, does anyone have any any ideas on automating this, or any other ways of doing this I haven't thought of?