We have a tape for each day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) and use a single LTO-6 drive.
I've set up media pools for each day (Monday, Tuesday, and so on).
The size of the CT being backed up is roughly 250GB. I aim to restore the entire CT from a single tape in the event of a disaster.
I want to ideally store at least four (4) "Mondays" on each Monday tape, four "Tuesdays" on the Tuesday tape, four "Wednesdays" on the Wednesday tape, and so on.
Is this possible and is it accomplished by setting the Retention period to 4 weeks?
I am slightly confused by the Allocation Policy vs Retention Policy. I have the Allocation Policy set to 01:30 (Daily), but my confusion stems from the option of "Continue" and "Always" as I interpret the allocation policy to be when or how often to back up a data store.
I've set up media pools for each day (Monday, Tuesday, and so on).
The size of the CT being backed up is roughly 250GB. I aim to restore the entire CT from a single tape in the event of a disaster.
I want to ideally store at least four (4) "Mondays" on each Monday tape, four "Tuesdays" on the Tuesday tape, four "Wednesdays" on the Wednesday tape, and so on.
Is this possible and is it accomplished by setting the Retention period to 4 weeks?
I am slightly confused by the Allocation Policy vs Retention Policy. I have the Allocation Policy set to 01:30 (Daily), but my confusion stems from the option of "Continue" and "Always" as I interpret the allocation policy to be when or how often to back up a data store.