SCI Posted March 19, 2002 Report Share Posted March 19, 2002 We have a client who insists on doing a full backup every night via script. The problem that we've run into is that this overwrites the catalog with every backup. This means that to do a restore from a previous tape, the catalog has to be regenerated from the tape in question. Is there a reasonably easy way to preserve the catalogs so that they are not overwritten every night, and catalogs do not have to be recreated [a long process] any time a several days old backup has to be restored? Any suggestions are welcom. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 19, 2002 Report Share Posted March 19, 2002 A New Media backup instead of Recycle will request a new tape, and create a new backup set with a new name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCI Posted March 19, 2002 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2002 Some clarification: The customer wants to keep a two week set of tapes, which will be reformatted each time they're used so that if somebody puts in the wrong tape for a day, they'll still get a backup. They're using an Onstream ADR tape drive, so cost factors alone would deter them from just adding tapes. I'm not sure that what they want to do is even possible with Retrospect. Is what you suggest compatible with what they want to do? If so, how much user intervention is required? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted April 4, 2002 Report Share Posted April 4, 2002 Retrospect will not do a Recycle Backup to any tape that is in the drive. It must have the correct tape in order to erase the media and do a complete backup. It sounds as if this is what you are looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCI Posted April 5, 2002 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2002 My problem is that my customer wants to do a full backup every night AND not overwrite the catalog every night. It does not appear that that's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted April 5, 2002 Report Share Posted April 5, 2002 It's possible. You can turn matching off. If you turn matching off - it will rebackup everything all over again as it doesn't have anything to match against. You can change this under options of your script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetDes Posted April 8, 2002 Report Share Posted April 8, 2002 I have a similar goal: - Full backup every day to a new tape. - Restore from any tape even if it's a month old - without having to rebuild the catalog. Can't the catalog of a 'normal/new media' or 'recycled' backup just be put on the tape? Thanks, Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted April 8, 2002 Report Share Posted April 8, 2002 In your case you want to have a Backupset for each tape you want to use and do a recycle every day. This would be a complete backup every day to a different tape. It would then have a snapshot for each one of those tape backups as well that corresponds with the tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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