> On 24. Oct 2023, at 17:15, Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net> wrote:
> 
> On 10/24/23 10:59, Justin Case wrote:
> 
> Disclaimer:  My situation is a little different from yours, I'm doing 
> disk-to-disk-to-removable-disk.
> 
> 
>> For tier 1: does it make sense to have different volumes for full jobs and 
>> incr jobs? Does it make sense to have these volumes in seperate pools, or 
>> full and incr together in a pool? Would you recommend having different pools 
>> for different groups of jobs?
> 
> I keep Full, Differential and Incremental jobs in separate Pools.  That way I 
> can purge job batches as they become obsolete on their own schedules and 
> recover the space.

I realized that my fulls and incrementals have the same retention time, so I 
made 1 pool for both.

I guess you are using X > Y months for fulls and Y > Z months fordifferentials 
and Z months for incrementals?


>> For tier 2: here I wil use copy jobs. Since copy jobs really do not 
>> differentiate full and incr backups, there will be full and incr copies 
>> together in volumes. Would you recommend having different pools for 
>> different groups of copy jobs?
> 
> I use copy jobs, but I copy only FULL backups to removable disk.  (The 
> removable disk zpools are then exported, unmounted, and stored 
> offline/airgapped.)
> 

on second thought that could make more sense, as it allows for a longer 
retention.



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