andysykes Posted May 28, 2009 Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 (edited) Hi all, I'm pondering the "groom" feature of R8. Am I mistaken in thinking this is a way to avoid recycles? I have a very big Disk media set (nearly 7TB) which means recycle backups take longer than the Ice Age. If I was to groom the media set to 10 backups, will this provide me with 10 incremental backups (thus keeping the set at a reasonable size) without ever needing to recycle? The set doesn't change a huge amount (a few GB here and there), so I guess I'd only have to recycle if I made huge changes if the above is true. [edit] Does automatic groom actually work, or is it broken? Edited May 28, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jspiel Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 In my experience, the grooming doesn't work as it must... (or at least as I understand how it should) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 I've not had a problem with it grooming -- either scripting it or having it run automatically when the disk filled. YMMV, of course... My only real problem with it is that I can't set it much above "200" (known bug) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Is there a way to groom old backups to tape (and if so, some doc describing how)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Is there a way to groom old backups to tape (and if so, some doc describing how)? I don't understand the question. Grooming is a disk media set feature. Tape uses a different media set type that does not support grooming. You can copy data from disk to tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impala Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 I don't think so but that is a good idea. mayoff I think he means to copy old data from disk media set to tape media set, then groom that same data off of the disk media set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 Basically, instead of simply removing them from the disk set, they are first copied to tape. That way they age out to tape, but the tape doesn't need to back up everything and the disk set essentially grows unbounded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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