I am surprised by the number of people using a single volume pool for data backups. What about mixed retentions on media?
The way i do things is like this :- Have a daily, weekly, monthly, offsite, logs tape pools ( as well as netbackup, and none obviously ) Now whatever the policy and file list, clients etc i have a daily, weekly, monthly schedule which has different expiry times on it. Dailys i expire after 2 weeks, weeklys after 1 month and monthlys after 6 months. The volume pool is associated with the schedule and then all images from different policies are striped to tapes (mpx) to keep tape usage down and have the same retention on media. Weekly and monthly backups are then identified by tapes used in x hours for a certain tape pool or schedule name once a week and removed from the jukebox. The offsite pool i have is for ITC where it is used and have the second job write to an offsite pool which can then be identified daily and removed. This offsite pool only has a retention of 2 weeks for any schedule which runs as there is little point ( IMO ) of having 2 weeks old Disaster recovery data. Tapes are then brought back into to scratch after this 2 weeks and reused. The logs policy has a schedule which is infinite expiry as my customers sometimes want to keep logs indefinitely and these are usually written by a script on each client invoking bparchive or bpbackup with a list produced from find command. Each to there own, but there is what i do on a normal setup if you can find any use from it. Cheers Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Hi all, > > What is "best practice" with regards to Volume Pools ? > > We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our data tapes. > Is it good practice to use the "Netbackup" Volume pool for this situation ? > > -aW > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu