MikeMuha wrote:
I've been trying to figure out a policy for doing a daily full backup, 6 days a week, with a 2 week retention so that each backup starts with a different tape. I'll need 12 tapes in total, one for each day over the 2 weeks (more if the full backup exceeds one tape). All the tapes will remain in our Quantum tape library.

Do I have to have a separate policy for each of the 12 days? Or is there an easier way?

Thanks
Mike

What will keep the second Monday's backup from appending to the first Monday's tape? Or does the 2 week retention do that for me?

Thanks - like your solution.
Mike

Perfect! Thanks Stumpr.

Hi Darren,

We have a specific customer-related SLA that requires daily backups on separate tapes. We don't need to take them offsite, however (weeklies and monthlies go offsite). We're busy, so we'd rather just leave the tapes in the library and forget about them.

In addition, large data changes in what we backup from day-to-day would make a restore take a long time if we used incrementals or differentials.

Mike

Message Edited by MikeMuha on 04-09-2008 11:30 AM