![]() 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 FarAwaćity 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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