I know I am flogging a dead horse here. In order to define your backup/restore policies you must focus on the businesses RESTORE REQUIREMENTS and then determine what backups/archives are required to meet those requirements. Remember the only reason (outside of appeasing the political requirements of those who do not understand) for doing backups is to provide the ability to restore. DO NOT focus on how many backups are required until you understand the RESTORE REQUIREMENTS.
This seems to be the only way that I manage to get around the archaic way of thinking when it comes to doing backups, when required. My two cents worth. Jim Taylor -----Original Message----- From: Marc Levitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Monthly Backups, ...again! Has anyone had to defend themselves against the MONTHLY FULL BACKUP kept for a year scenario??? Business wants a monthly full backup to be kept for a year. How have people dealt with this issue? Thanks, Marc Levitan Storage Manager PFPC Global Fund Services ----- Forwarded by Marc D Levitan/PFPC/WES/PNC on 04/04/2002 11:15 AM ----- Marc D Levitan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 04/04/2002 Subject: Monthly Backups, ...again! 08:51 AM A question was brought up while discussing retention policies. Currently we have the following retentions: Policy Policy Mgmt Copy Versions Versions Retain Retain Domain Set Name Class Group Data Data Extra Only Name Name Name Exists Deleted Versions Version --------- --------- --------- --------- -------- -------- -------- ------- COLD ACTIVE COLD STANDARD 2 1 5 30 NOVELL ACTIVE DIRMC STANDARD 30 1 120 365 NOVELL ACTIVE STANDARD STANDARD 30 1 120 365 RECON ACTIVE DIRMC STANDARD 36 3 75 385 RECON ACTIVE MC_RECON STANDARD 26 1 60 365 STANDARD ACTIVE DIRMC STANDARD 26 1 60 365 STANDARD ACTIVE STANDARD STANDARD 26 1 60 365 UNIX ACTIVE MC_UNIX STANDARD 30 1 60 30 I believe that this provides for daily backups for over a month. There was a request to have the following: 1) Daily backups for a week. 2) Weekly backups for a month. 3) Monthly backups for a year. I believe we are providing 1 & 2. We are providing daily backups for a month. How can I provide monthly backups for a year? I know that I could take monthly archives, but this would exceed our backup windows and would increase our resources ( db, tapes, etc.) Also, I know we could lengthen our retention policies. Also we could create backup sets. (tons of tapes!) How are other people handling this? Thanks, Marc Levitan Storage Manager PFPC Global Fund Services
