dwossum Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 I have recently purchased Retrospect mutli-server 7.5.8.101 with all the agents. I am backing up 180 GB over several servers including Exchange. I have 900 GB of drive space to write my back up too. I have Autoloader that holds 8 200/400 Gb tapes. Here is what I would like, or rather what my boss wants: Week 1 Monday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 101] Tuesday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 102] Wednesday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 103] Thursday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 104] Friday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 105] Saturday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 106] Sunday Full -> Disk -> tape [tape 120,122,124,126,128…etc] Week 2 Monday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 107] Tuesday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 108] Wednesday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 109] Thursday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 110] Friday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 111] Saturday Incremental -> Disk -> tape [tape 112] Sunday Full -> Disk -> tape [tape 121,123,125,127,…etc] Week 3 rotate to week ones tapes. The Sunday full each week will be taken off site and be rotated in 14 weeks. I will rotate between two weeks worth of tapes [numbers in brackets]. I would like to keep the two weeks worth of back up on the drive and implement user initiated restore. I will use the grooming to clear the drive space after two weeks. I have 4 back up sets that copy the data from the 4 servers to disk. I would like help in setting up the back up sets to make this is automated as possible as to where a tape monkey can just put the tapes in the drive in any order and things will work. How many back up sets do I need and how many scripts so I need? I am a retrospect newbie and any help would be appreciated. thanks for your time. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 That is not how Retrospect works. Start by reading this white paper: http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/kb/article.asp?aid=8020&n=1&s= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwossum Posted November 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 I have already read this document... and your link does not work. From reading this document several times I do not see that "This is not how Retrospect works". But thanks for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 Quote: I have already read this document... and your link does not work. From reading this document several times I do not see that "This is not how Retrospect works". But thanks for the reply. Rats. Here's another link for other readers: http://208.109.74.99/smf/download/Backup/wp_retro_disk_backups.pdf As for how Retrospect works, here's how WE do it. We don't have disk-to-disk-to-tape, but the tape usage is as follows: Full backup on weekends on tapes 1-8 (New media backup). Progressive backups each night until next weekend on tapes 8-11. (Normal backup) Then a new set of tapes the next weekend, numbered 1-8 as the cycle repeats. You can't put progressive backups on a set of tapes other than the full backup set of tapes. It will be a full backup by nature, since all files not already backed up will be copied to tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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