Write indexBackup to separate scratch pool

Question

right now, I have backups to disk. and once a month, backup to tape as well.

The indexServer backups follow the same storage policy and will write to tape as well, but often it will just use a new tape from the scratch pool and ‘waste’ a few tapes for very little data.

I would prefer to consolidate all indexServer backups to a single tape in a different scratch pool.

That way, our monthly offsiting will include only one index tape instead of multiple index tapes with barely any content.

I’ve created a seperate scratch pool with the appropriate barcode pattern, but how do I configure the index backups to use that scratch pool?

Josh Perkoff · Accepted Answer

Hello @Ben Van Doorsselaere,Thank you for reaching out on this query.If you would like to set up your IndexServer Backups to all write to the same tape pool, you would need to create a dedicated storage policy and associate all the IndexBackups to that policy and assign the tape copy of that policy to that scratch pool.Let me know if you have any other questions.Regards,Josh

Ben Van Doorsselaere · Answer

Thank you, that is a clear solution :)

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