dosle Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 Hi, We are in a sticky situation with out backup strategy. Basically we have 15 servers that need nightly backup. Some of these are file server and have backups going back a year. Right now we are about 40 tapes into the backup and adding more servers to retrospect's plate of nightly backups. The tape device we run is an exabyte 430m (robot loader). One of our major file servers is not only backed up nightly but is also setup under proactive backup. This is set to run constantly otherwise it begins backup @ 10pm along with all the other machines. If a tape is filled and retrospect needs another one it also halts proactive backup. This is the problem we are facing lately that the data is growing so large that we are stalling nightly backups at 1-4am when it runs out of tape. This leaves us catching up to be able to backup the next night when it comes up and this can compile quickly putting us a few days back. Is there a way to make proactive run even if retrospect is waiting on a tape for another script? A possible solution is we have TWO copies of retrospect on different servers and separate tape devices. We were thinking doing proactive on the major servers to a huge Raid-5 SAN and keep the other copy of Retro on tapes for fail over. any experienced retro users with thoughts on this? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stavroska Posted October 13, 2006 Report Share Posted October 13, 2006 >>>> A possible solution is we have TWO copies of retrospect on different servers and separate tape devices. We were thinking doing proactive on the major servers to a huge Raid-5 SAN and keep the other copy of Retro on tapes for fail over. No need for two... Run your nightly backup to Disk sets on your SAN and transfer them from the SAN to tape. Retrospect will run 2 or 8 jobs simultaneously when it goes to disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosle Posted October 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2006 Is there a special way to do this? i am looking at the location on our SAN where we store a small scale Disk2Disk proactive setup. Would I be backing this up these RDB files? Seems messy to have to restore from tape to restored .RDB file, then RDB file into proactive restore and finally getting the file out that the user wants. Please clarify if I am wrong in how i suspect this would function. thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted October 13, 2006 Report Share Posted October 13, 2006 hi dosle, Retrospect 7.5 has a couple of 'Transfer' options that you are probably not aware of. here is a link to the 7.5 manual: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=8333&p=2 check out, "Scripted Backup Set Transfer" starting on page 124, and "Scripted Snapshot Transfer" starting on page 127. by using either 'Transfer' feature, you can restore directly from the tapes as though you'd done the original backup directly to them. if you have specific questions about either of those, just post them here. cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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