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Backup life settings best experience

Hi,

 

I'm struggling with the backup life settings for my data sets on disk.

I can't get this to work properly; either jobs are purged from disk which shouldn't have or jobs are still on disk while they should be purged.

For example I often see that there are daily jobs on disk but without the preceding full job. So these daily jobs are useless to keep on disk.

So I'm wondering what other users have for backup life settings; based on full backup count or based on time or both, with or without force expiry.

 

My situation:

Full backup runs on Friday night = weekly backup

Incremental backup runs on Monday-Thursday night = daily backup

Backup is disk > disk > tape, used tapes are taken home each night.

 

I can divide the data on disk in 2 groups :

Group 1 - my file server: I want to be able to restore data from disk up to 2 weeks old. This server has it's own 'advanced backup options' for daily and weekly jobs.

Group 2 - all other servers: it is enough to restore data from disk up to 1 week old. These servers all use the same 'advanced backup options'.

 

Example:

On Tuesday Jan 10th, I want to restore a file from a server in group 2 from Wednesday Jan 4th.

To use the daily jobs from Wednesday Jan 4th, I would need the preceding full backup from Friday Dec 30th as well. So I would need to have 2 full backup sets on disk to be able to restore data from 1 week old,  full backup from Friday Dec 30th +  full backup from Friday Jan 6th. Correct?

 

In your opinion, what would be the correct backup life settings to accomplish this (both for the daily and weekly jobs) ?

 

Regards,

Richard

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  • Hi,

    That's a long answer, thanks :)

    Reason I asked this is because of a SR I have about jobs that are not being purged from disk.
    So I started playing with the backup life settings to see if that would make a difference and I was wondering what settings are sort of best-practice.

    Advice from Dell was not to discard the daily jobs at all, only the fulls. The daily jobs should be deleted automatically when the full is expired (which doesn't seem to happen).
    My full's were set to discard after 3 full backups for group 1 and 2 full backups for group 2. I now changed this to 3 or 2 weeks.


    Richard
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  • Hi,

    That's a long answer, thanks :)

    Reason I asked this is because of a SR I have about jobs that are not being purged from disk.
    So I started playing with the backup life settings to see if that would make a difference and I was wondering what settings are sort of best-practice.

    Advice from Dell was not to discard the daily jobs at all, only the fulls. The daily jobs should be deleted automatically when the full is expired (which doesn't seem to happen).
    My full's were set to discard after 3 full backups for group 1 and 2 full backups for group 2. I now changed this to 3 or 2 weeks.


    Richard
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