Weekly Rotation with Different Media Pools?

[bradcarter]

Hi,

I'm very new to ARCserve. The only backups I've done before is using rsync so I'm confused on how to set up a backup scheme with ARCserve.

Our corporation has required that once a week we send off backup tapes for off site storage. I'd like to start a full backup on Tuesday 12am and increment from there till the following Monday. Sometime on Monday I'd like to change out the tapes to the next weeks tapes.

Basically I would have 2 sets of tape, one set is in house and the other is off site. We have an HP 1/8 Autoloader so I have enough space to backup all the servers.

I can't figure out how to set up an alternating schedule like this in ARCserve v12. When I pick a rotating schedule I don't see how I can tell it every other week starting with this week using Media Pool 1 and so on. Am I missing something in the setup?

Thanks,

Brad

 

[davidmichel]

I'm not sure what you are asking

how to set it up to have two copies of the backup - well for that you could setup to backup to FSD and then tapecopy to two different tapes, or just add a 2nd tape drive.

how to setup a job to backup every other week - not with Rotation, use Custom.

 

[DJCopa]

We have the same setup - Bi-Weekly backup so one week is in Loader and 1 week offsite.

Just use Rotation with 5-Day Weekly GFS - Let BrightStor setup Media Pools and you should be good to go

 

[bilbus]

yup, GFS is good for multi pools. Like daily, weekly, and monthly.

If you just need daily and weekly, you can do normal rotation.