I’m wondering how to add an incremental SP into a working environment without causing mission critical BUs to fail.
I have 4 “very large” NAS/NFS subclients which all go to a SP which currently has just one S3 destination for all jobs. It was becoming impractical to send all fulls and incs to tape and the business requirement is just “daily backups to tape” so we do synthetic fulls, but, even occasional synth fulls then would need to copy to tape, all wasting tapes due to cycles, etc. I had talked to one of the guys in support about this and it sounded “easy enough” but when I try to deploy, things don’t look like it was described over the phone.
So, what we would really like to do is have only incremental jobs copied from that S3 copy to tape. No fulls, ever go to tape. We also don’t want to skip any incs going to the existing primary bucket.
I thought it would be as simple as creating a new incremental policy but I have observed that if I have any Incremental SP’s the actual option to select the Inc.SP from the existing SP, the box is missing. I don’t get it. Removing all incremental SPs - the drop down box returns to my main S3 SP.
I then saw that you could modify the actual subclients to tell them how to get to the incremental SP, but, that seems to override sending those incs to the S3 primary or is that not going to change by all this?
Anyhow I couldn’t find a BoL page which answers this, only how to enable.
thanks!