I think that my words have been taken out of context. I know you cant and shouldn't mix retentions on media which is why i find it hard that people use 1 media pool for all backups. From that i would assume they have the same retention for all backups. This in my opinion which is only my opinion is a bad idea.
To give advise to the original thread i was saying that one volume pool for all backups is perhaps not the right way to do things and i was surprised by the number of people who seemed to adopt it. I asked about mixed retentions as people with 1 volume pool cannot ( safely ) then have a full backup with a different retention than say a cumulative backup. Cheers bob944 wrote: > Dave Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I am surprised by the number of people using a single volume pool for >> data backups. What about mixed retentions on media? >> > > What about them? NetBackup *never* puts different retentions on a tape > unless you force it to with the MULTIPLE_RETENTIONS_PER_MEDIA directive > (and there are very few situations where that's a good idea). > > You are managing something that doesn't need to be managed. There are > better uses for administrator brainpower. > > I'm holding my tongue on a certain British colleague's pathological > overmanagement. :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
