On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Brendon Martino wrote: > Thus, it was proposed that I mount some NFS space from another system (a > NAS, for all intents and purposes, though it has a WORM architecture and > is only used for archiving data with retention periods that delete old > archives). So now I have 1TB of space mounted under /nfsbackup. How do I > implement my architecture to only keep about a week (or even a day) of > backups in the holding disk (locally on the system) but use the nfs > storage space for archiving the rest of the old backups? The idea is > that we keep 30 to 60 days worth of old backups on the NAS, but only the > last day or few days locally on the backup server. > > How do I do that? Is it possible? What would be the general idea/layout? > What directives would I need to change? Would I need to use multiple > DailySets?? I'm totally stumped. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Did you actually try yo setup a holdingdisk with a capacity of 7+something days of vtapes and putting your tapes on NFS ? You would need to configure your holdingspace to flush after said time of course. Or can't a holdingdisk have more than one tape worth of data? cheers, Leon
