Help setting up tape rotation

iaind

iaind

iaind

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Morning all,

I'm replacing our ageing standalone SDLT tape drives with a nice shiny new Quantum LTO4 autoloader.

I've done a fair bit of work with Backup Exec (now on 2010) before so I'm happy setting up the jobs, but I've never worked with a loader before.

What I want to achieve is a grandfather-father-son rotation. So monday-thursday are just reused every week. Then, friday A,B,C tapes rotated every month and removed from the loader and put in a safe. Finally, on the last friday of the month, a monthly archive tape which will be taken off site.

So how much automation is it realistic to expect, and how would I go about achieving it?

TIA
 
Thanks, that sounds logical

Presumably I'd use retention rules to ensure the right tapes are used?
 
Presumably it still sees the individual tapes as the media, not the whole partition? Eg the partition is the device, not the media?

We're backing up enough to fit everything uncompressed onto a single tape at the moment, but that will be expanding quite rapidly soon - so I'd like to get it on one tape per day really
 
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