Hugh, Glad to have been of help.
Others may weigh in with alternate strategies but it sounds as if you have a satisfactory plan for now. Good luck, Brian On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42 > > > > Personally I think periodic archives are a good idea. > > Pulling the January monthly sounds like a reasonable approach. > > Thanks. It is nice to have confirmation that I am on reasonable track. > > > > 2. If we are to use this approach is there a way to designate a tape > > > as not to be reused but leave it in the set or will we have to > > > remove it from the set? > > > > You can mark the tape "no-reuse" in the tapelist, # amadmin has an > > option to do this. Depending on your naming schema this may or may > > not cause confusing later on. > > That is exactly what I am looking for. It is so straight forward I > wonder how I could have possibly missed it in my previous searches. I > guess I am just getting blind in my old age. > > > You also have the option of adding tapes to the pool with different > > sufixes, or if you are running a different config, even different > > prefixes. > > > > Annual2014, Annual2015 > > MonthlyFeb, MonthlyMarch, MonthlyApril > > Daily01...Daily20 (or however large your pool is). > > I had decided to avoid trying to force the tape names to match specific > days, months or years as it appeared that I would end up spending an > inordinate amount of time trying to ensure that Amanda used the right > tape on the right day. I created DailySet1 (5 tapes), WeeklySet1 (5 > tapes) and MonthlySet1 (12 tapes) and named the tapes DS1-01 through > DS1-05, WS1-01 through WS1-05 and MS1-01 through MS1-12, respectively. > I then let Amanda manage which tape is used next. We keep a log both > manually and electronically of which tapes were used on which days in > case we ever need to restore from tape. > > For the yearly tape I will now mark which ever tape Amanda used for > the January tape (MS1-04 this year) as NO-REUSE and then add another > tape (MS1-13 in this case) to the set and then defer to Amanda to > choose when it gets used in the cycle. > > > How are you creating your monthly? Separate config, or are you > > using amadmin to force fulls for all on one weekend? Or are you > > simply pulling a tapecycle of tapes? > > We are fortunate to be able to do a complete backup on one tape as we > are to have the resources to perform full backups on a regular basis > therefore we only run full backups to all tapes. Dailies are run Sunday > through Thursday night, weeklies are run Friday night and monthlies are > run Sunday nights. This greatly simplifies our scheduling and restoring > should that ever be necessary. > > > How are you keeping your currently monthly's out of the re-use cycle? > > We just started doing the monthly tapes so this had not come up yet. > > Thanks for your very informative and helpful response. > > Regards, Hugh > > -- > Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com > --- Brian R Cuttler [email protected] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773
