I am making changes to my ARCserve configuration and I need some guidance.
Currently I am running 11.5 SP3 on one standalone server with a DAT72 autoloader attached via SCSI. I was planning on installing 12.0 on a different server with a LTO Ultrium tape device and removing ARCserve from the old server once I had moved database. Since my current database is in VLDB format, I found out that I would also need to upgrade to 12.0 on the old server so that I can upgrade the database to SQL Express 2005 format before moving the database. Then I could uninstall ARCserve on the "old" server. Since I may need DAT compatibility for archives, I was also planning on installing SCSI card in the "new" server and connecting the DAT72 device.
But I also thought perhaps it might be better to purchase another license for ARCserve and leave the DAT72 device and that database on the "old" server and start with a clean SQL database on the "new" server.
Additional questions:
- If I have two different databases will I have to reconfigure my backup jobs or if I save my jobs as files, can they be added onto the new system? I realize I will have to change the tape Group destination.
- I have never had a Primary and Member ARCserve server. Is this the way to go or is it easier to just have two standalone servers? From what I read, it looks as if I must have additional agents installed. I only have Windows Agents installed now.
You may think that once I have current files backed up that I don't need archives, but I have had people not realize that they have deleted something until perhaps 1 year after the deletion so I need to be able to read DAT tapes.
Any thoughts would be appricated.
Currently I am running 11.5 SP3 on one standalone server with a DAT72 autoloader attached via SCSI. I was planning on installing 12.0 on a different server with a LTO Ultrium tape device and removing ARCserve from the old server once I had moved database. Since my current database is in VLDB format, I found out that I would also need to upgrade to 12.0 on the old server so that I can upgrade the database to SQL Express 2005 format before moving the database. Then I could uninstall ARCserve on the "old" server. Since I may need DAT compatibility for archives, I was also planning on installing SCSI card in the "new" server and connecting the DAT72 device.
But I also thought perhaps it might be better to purchase another license for ARCserve and leave the DAT72 device and that database on the "old" server and start with a clean SQL database on the "new" server.
Additional questions:
- If I have two different databases will I have to reconfigure my backup jobs or if I save my jobs as files, can they be added onto the new system? I realize I will have to change the tape Group destination.
- I have never had a Primary and Member ARCserve server. Is this the way to go or is it easier to just have two standalone servers? From what I read, it looks as if I must have additional agents installed. I only have Windows Agents installed now.
You may think that once I have current files backed up that I don't need archives, but I have had people not realize that they have deleted something until perhaps 1 year after the deletion so I need to be able to read DAT tapes.
Any thoughts would be appricated.