Scenario 2: Medium to Large Deployment
Infrastructure: Medium to large infrastructure (100 or more VMs)
Policies: New tapes are loaded and used tapes are exported on a certain day of the week.
Recommended settings:
| Entity | Configuration settings |
|---|---|
| Media pool | Full and incremental backups should use different media pools. It is possible to set longer retention for full backups media pool and shorter - for incremental backups media pool, decreasing granularity for backups (e.g. 2 months for full backup media pool, 2 weeks for incremental backup media pool) |
| Media pool (retention) | Protect data for <desired period> option should be used (specify the period you need, e.g. 7 days, 1 month, etc.) |
| Media set (retention) | Automatically create new media set daily on <day> (e.g. Monday, etc.) |
| Source (backup job) | Forward or forever forward incremental backup that runs daily. |
| Tape job | Eject media upon job completion option should be enabled. Export current media set.. should be enabled for the day when used tapes are extracted from library |
| Scheduling | Forward incremental job running every day with weekly full backup. Tape job can be scheduled to run every day after primary backup -OR- Forever forward incremental job running every day. Virtual full must be scheduled to run periodically, dividing the forever incremental chain in smaller "chunks" to avoid risk of overwriting the only VBK (next run the job will have to copy it once again). |