How to use external hard-disks and rotate them
Created: 04 Sep 2012 | Updated: 05 Sep 2012 | 6 comments
Are you thinking of using external USB or eSata hard-disks for your backups and you also want to rotate them? If you do not know how, read my articles
For BE 2012 -
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-rotate-external-harddisks-be-2012
For BE 2010 and earlier versions of BE -
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-rotate-external-harddisks
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Thanks for those wonderful articles.....
Comes to real rescue for the people who use USB drives for storage
Good to know, I will just add that it is necessary to check the compatibility list for BE2012 or 2010 .
Please find the links for compatibility :
Be2012
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
Be2010
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
First i suggest to look on HCL before try
Isn't this what the previous post is suggesting??
When you use tapes, you have a retention period that you can see when you look at offline media.
If you use the above procedure, how do you figure out which drive you need to bring back from offsite storage? I cant see any way to tell which drive you would use. We are using 5 drives for daily and then want to keep 5 weeks of weekly full backups and keep 12 months of monthly backups and then 6 years of yearly full backups. With that number of drives, I need to know which ones can be brought back online.
Thoughts?
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