HI
I have 12 Different Storage Policies writing ‘1st Full of the Month’ backups (via Selective Copy) to the same Storage Pool Copy
1st full of the Months (depending upon (clients/subclients) are typically started and finish within the first 15 days of the month.
All subclients run incrementals on a daily basis
At the moment I’m using the ‘Aux every 30 minutes’ schedule
And the the VT criteria ‘ Last write older than 5 Days
A few Questions
- Given the setup above, the BigData Index backups run as a full every day on many clients
- and they get written to Tape every day (ie they over ride the ‘1st Full of the Month’ to tape rule, and copy themselves to tape every day (as the Aux copy is running every 30 mins) , and as such the Tape never reaches a point where no writes have occurred for 5 Days
- I could use Associations on the Aux Copy to filter them out (have done this on other projects, it just tends to get messy after a while)
- Would I be better off setting a fixed ‘once per month’ schedule - possibly a unique ‘once per month’ schedule for each Storage Policy
- That way I’d solve the BigData/Index ‘issue
- Its not ideal, as I’d ‘like’ what ever data is ready to be written to tape to be written as soon as possible (the benefit of the 30 min Aux internal),
- or is here something else that could be done
- I’d prefer not to deal with triggered scripts on a job basis