Greetings, I am running nb 5.1. I have policies that run fullbackups with a retention of 2 months. However, I also run quarterlies with the same retention. These quarterly fulls will be offsite infinitely. So I run "bpexpdate -m <media id> -d infinity" on each of the quarterly tapes. Is this an effective practice and will I be able to restore from these tapes 2 years from now if need be? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Rentention Question 2
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I have a setup that looks a little like the one you have (except my offsite tapes come back again)
What I do is to have different schedules for the 2 types of backups, and on the "offsite" schedule I have forced the policy to use a different tape pool and have a different retention.
Then I just eject the tapes in the "offsite" pool.
When I get time to test it I will move this to Vault
Remember that eg SQL server backups don't have the posibility to have two different schedules (and follow them correct so in these cases I have 2 policies)
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What I do is to have different schedules for the 2 types of backups, and on the "offsite" schedule I have forced the policy to use a different tape pool and have a different retention.
Then I just eject the tapes in the "offsite" pool.
When I get time to test it I will move this to Vault
Remember that eg SQL server backups don't have the posibility to have two different schedules (and follow them correct so in these cases I have 2 policies)
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As yourself this question 'why am I using a retention of 2 months when I want to be able to restore in 2 years time'.
The set up you have is not the easiest. For a start you are running the risk of having the fullbackups and quarterlies write to the same tape. This means that you will have to offsite more tapes than you need to. The tapes will also have data on them that you don't need to keep for two years. And you have to manualy do the expire change. I try to run my system so I need to do the minimum of work. " Less I do the less I cockup".
The simple thing will be to use a retention of 2 years or indefinatly if you want to keep a tape for two years or more. If you don't then the tape will require importing.
The set up you have is not the easiest. For a start you are running the risk of having the fullbackups and quarterlies write to the same tape. This means that you will have to offsite more tapes than you need to. The tapes will also have data on them that you don't need to keep for two years. And you have to manualy do the expire change. I try to run my system so I need to do the minimum of work. " Less I do the less I cockup".
The simple thing will be to use a retention of 2 years or indefinatly if you want to keep a tape for two years or more. If you don't then the tape will require importing.
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