scalman Posted April 20, 2004 Report Share Posted April 20, 2004 Hello all, I am fairly new to retrospect and have way too much experience with those "other" products V***S and ArcS***. I really need some help with my backup strategy as Retro handles it differently and I am not happy with the results. The scenario: I have Retro Multiserver on an XP Pro machine and it controls a Qualstar 14 bay library with a single AIT2 drive. I am backing up 4 Windows servers, 1 linux server, 1 OSX server and a mix of 38 desktops of all flavors over 100 Base T. What I want to do is run a Friday Recycle backup (Full backup is currewntly taking 21 hours...) and then on Monday thru thursday do an incrementalAbout 6 GB aned 3 to 7 hours.). Right now I am using 2 scripts and two tape sets. The Friday set contains 14 tapes and I will overwrite as I rotate through them. For the Mon-Thurs tapes I have 4 sets of 4 tapes that will rotate on a weekly basis(Every 4 weeks I start over.) I have a separate mont end that we keep for years... This worked well with V***S but doesn't want to with retro. Instead of the weekly's appending new and changed to a new tape every night, it just wants to fill the next tape in the set. Should I set that to New Media? Also. I dont think the daily's are appending the Friday tapes at all. What this means is that everything about the rotation is screwed up now and I am not able to keep the history I really need. Does anybody have a better method they would be willing to share? Scott Calman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Hi I think the primary difference in Retrospect is that it operates in terms of sets rather than induvidual tapes. The attached picture shows a 4week set rotation that works well with Retrospect. The backups in Red are full (recycle) backups and all the others are incremental. (pardon the Japanese - I haven't had time to make an english version yet) Will this kind of thing work for you? Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalman Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 That does not give the coverage i need. I need to have weekly's going back 3 monthe and daily's at least for 1 month. I talked to a Dantz Helpdesk guy yesterday and he explained that Retrospect is not designed to do the whole Grandfather-father-son thing with tape rotation and the only way to get the incrementals onto a different tape each day was to remove the last tape and but in a blank tape. this would negate the whole purpose of Automation... I came up with an alternate though, Tell me what you think? A single manual script and 14 tape sets of 3 tapes each. Weeks will run Friday-Thursday and on the first day a full backup will run, using 1 complete tape and part of the second tape. Then it will do normals for the rest of the week ont that second tape. The 3rd tape is there just in case one of my users decides to copy the entire contents of their local hard drive onto on of my servers(again...). On the second week, a new set goes in, and the old one goes in the safe. On the third week, the 1st week goes off site, 2nd week into the safe... Does this sound like it would work ok to you? Scott Calman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 Hi That should be fine. If I am not mistaken the concept is the same as the screen shot I posted but you are adding more sets and stretching out the recycles to cover 3 months? Maybe I am missing something here... Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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