![]() Software cleaning (Commvault) or hardware cleaning (tape unit) can be used, but not both. The term removable media is used to specify various types of removable media supported by Commvault ®  software, including tape and USB disk drives, which can be moved between MediaAgents for data protection and recovery operations.Ĭonfigure the tape storage cleaning method to use. I'd do some simple scripting and just keep a running log of what gets written to what drive so you can know which one to recover.A tape storage is a target where media can be added, removed, and moved between multiple targets. Then, use rsync or something on a schedule to copy to your drives. Primary Job GFS (just set it up as you wrote) So I think you're going to be doing something like: I would agree, get a dedicated USB 3.0 that supports USB-C Speeds (warning, be ready to do a LOT of research since the USB-C world is a mess once you're there, it's great, but the only thing standard about this standard is that nothing is standard) This gets my skin itching a ton as even with decent enterprise server hardware, the hardware hosting the USB channels was always cheaped out on, and just personally I've seen it tank pretty badly. >TPTB don't realize that the backup server only has USB 2.0 ports! Not the worst thing in the world, but I think you can already see the issues in that you lose functionality this way Thank you in advance for any and all help.įew things stand out to me that TPTB probably aren't gonna likeĪs I remember, Rotated Drives can't be used for GFS, so using them as a replacement for Tapes means switching to "dumb" copies of GFS points that sit on disk. If you want to laugh at my situation even more, TPTB don't realize that the backup server only has USB 2.0 ports! Since these jobs won't affect Production, it really does not matter how long it takes to perform the backups to portable disc - but they may care if we have to restore from them. Yes, I may be a little tongue-in-cheek, but it is serious. Then I want to schedule the jobs so that either a Synthetic Full backup is created (Weekly) or an Active Full backup is created (Monthly and Yearly). My thought is to create a job for each, but I am not sure that the server will give the same external drive letter each time. To obey the mandate handed down I need your wisdom to help me program jobs for the Weekly, Monthly, and Annual backups. I've already chosen the media to purchase. So, I'm looking at 5TB rugged HDDs and 8TB SSDs to back up onto instead of tape. Currently, our tapes were holding 4.4TB or up to 5.8TB of data. You are probably familiar with what we were doing. The retention for each job was 8 weeks for Weekly, 12 months for the Monthly, and 5 years for the Annual. ![]() We also had some spare tapes on hand for special backups (e.g., moving the server room from RentedSpace to OwnBuilding). ![]() Each Annual tape was only going to be used once and I kept 5 or 6 on hand for that job. We had 12 tapes for the Monthly schedule. The Weekly tapes were kept in the tape library onsite so they were always accessible. The Monthly backup tapes were stored offsite and were readily accessible if needed. The reason is because the Annual Tape was sent to FarAwa圜ity to be stored in the Vault and we do not have ready access to it in HomeTown. What you may not know is that on December 31st I would manually kick off a backup job so that December would also have a Monthly backup tape. The Yearly job would start January 1st at Midnight. The Monthly job started on the first day of every month at Midnight. ![]() The Weekly job started Sunday nights at Midnight. The Tape job backed up the backup files from the nightly backup jobs for the servers and recorded those files to tape. We should first know what the Tape schedule was. Here is the background on our Tape job that I sent to TPTB: The plan is to backup to the drives similar to what we were doing with Backup To Tape namely, a GFS plan with Weekly, Monthly, and Annual backups. The Powers That Be have decreed that instead of backing up to the Cloud (for lack of bandwidth and cost considerations) and that instead of replacing the Tape Drive (for cost considerations among other reasons), I will now backup to external portable drives. Now that we have paused a moment for the dead drive, let us look forward.
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