possible t setup different backup pools for the same client?

[tekkanet]

I would like to define a special backup pool for some clients, so that I can take the relative cartridges out of library for mantaining historical data, periodically updated.
In this case a client would have its default pool with its normal daily schedule and another pool with a different schedule, tipically executed only once a month.
And the cartridge of this latter pool will be taken offline for a month and then re-entered into the library for the next month.
The library has only one tape device.
Any hints for the corresponding configuration? Or do I have to buy archive functionalities licenses?
Thanks in advance,
Gianluca

 

[605]

Sure you can use multiple pools. However, you must then of course specify diffeen criteria to be able to create the pool. Let me suggest that you select a special group which you do not start every day but only manually.

NW Archiving in fact would need another license. But to achieve what you want, you don't need it for that purpose.

 

[tekkanet]

Thanks. Does this mean that a client can be a part of multiple groups?

 

[605]

Sure. As you see from the GUI, there is a separate checkbox for each group in the client resource.

 

[tekkanet]

ok, and suppose that for the client I want to define different save sets depending on the group running, is this possible?
To explain better to make you understand, I have a VMware ESX environment and the console OS on top of which the virtual machines run is a sort of linux os (name it esx00).
Daily I save normal file systems of esx00, but not the /vmfs file system that is a particular type of fs on a SAN, where virtual machines' virtual disks (that from an esx00 OS point of view are files) reside. Daily these files are opened because VMs are running so that doing a backup of them doesn't make sense.
Instead, once a month I can stop some of these VMs and backup their files on esx00 /vmfs that represent them.
Thanks in advance.

Gianluca

 

[605]

Let me suggest you just try the various configurations on a small test system - invest 15 minutes and get a general solution which lasts for years.