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[Suggestion] Configuring Multiple Full schedules (Quaterly and monthly)

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Hello,

I need a suggestion regarding schedules.  We have a NBU environment, where schedules are configured as follow.

Daily incremental, weekly cummulative incrementals (1 month), monthly full (3 monhts), Quaterly fulls (Infinity retentions). This is as per the business requirements.

Incrementals and cummulative incrementals are OK. But for the monthly and Quaterly fulls we have to maintain list of exclude and include dates.

On start of every quarter, quaterly fulls runs on those months no full backups should run. Vice versa is also true. So we have to keep populating exclude and include dates in our policies once they are exhausted.

This is how the policy schedule looks.

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 Schedule:          mon_mfull
    Type:            Full Backup
    Maximum MPX:     1
    Synthetic:       1
    PFI Recovery:    0
    Retention Level: 0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:   1
    Fail on Error:   0
    Residence:        (specific storage unit not required)
    Volume Pool:     (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:    (same as specified for policy)
    Calendar sched: Enabled
      Allowed to retry after run day
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 09/05/2011
      SPECIFIC DATE 1 - 11/07/2011
      SPECIFIC DATE 2 - 12/05/2011
      SPECIFIC DATE 3 - 02/06/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 4 - 03/05/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 5 - 05/07/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 6 - 06/04/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 7 - 08/06/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 8 - 09/03/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 9 - 11/05/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 10 - 12/03/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 11 - 02/04/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 12 - 03/04/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 13 - 05/06/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 14 - 06/03/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 15 - 08/05/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 16 - 09/02/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 17 - 11/04/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 18 - 12/02/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 19 - 02/04/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 20 - 03/03/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 21 - 05/05/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 22 - 06/02/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 23 - 08/04/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 24 - 09/08/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 25 - 11/03/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 26 - 12/08/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 27 - 02/02/2015
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 05/21/2012
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:     1
    Daily Windows:
          Tuesday    20:00:00  -->  Wednesday  07:00:00

  Schedule:          mon_qtr
    Type:            Full Backup
    Maximum MPX:     1
    Synthetic:       1
    PFI Recovery:    0
    Retention Level: 0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:   1
    Fail on Error:   0
    Residence:       (specific storage unit not required)
    Volume Pool:     (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:    (same as specified for policy)
    Calendar sched: Enabled
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 05/07/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 1 - 07/02/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 2 - 10/08/2012
      SPECIFIC DATE 3 - 01/07/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 4 - 04/08/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 5 - 07/08/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 6 - 10/07/2013
      SPECIFIC DATE 7 - 01/06/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 8 - 04/07/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 9 - 07/07/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 10 - 10/06/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 11 - 01/05/2015
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:     0
    Daily Windows:
          Monday     20:00:00  -->  Tuesday    07:00:00

  Schedule:          mon_wcumi
    Type:            Cumulative Incremental Backup
    Maximum MPX:     1
    Synthetic:       1
    PFI Recovery:    0
    Retention Level: 0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:   1
    Fail on Error:   0
    Residence:        (specific storage unit not required)
    Volume Pool:     (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:    (same as specified for policy)
    Calendar sched: Enabled
      Monday, Week 1
      Monday, Week 2
      Monday, Week 3
      Monday, Week 4
      Monday, Week 5
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 11/07/2011
      EXCLUDE DATE 1 - 12/05/2011
      EXCLUDE DATE 2 - 01/02/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 3 - 02/06/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 4 - 03/05/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 5 - 04/02/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 6 - 05/07/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 7 - 05/21/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 8 - 06/04/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 9 - 07/02/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 10 - 08/06/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 11 - 09/03/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 12 - 10/08/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 13 - 11/05/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 14 - 12/03/2012
      EXCLUDE DATE 15 - 01/07/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 16 - 02/04/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 17 - 03/04/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 18 - 04/08/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 19 - 05/06/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 20 - 06/03/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 21 - 07/08/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 22 - 08/05/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 23 - 09/02/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 24 - 10/07/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 25 - 11/04/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 26 - 12/02/2013
      EXCLUDE DATE 27 - 01/06/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 28 - 02/03/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 29 - 03/03/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 30 - 04/07/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 31 - 05/05/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 32 - 06/02/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 33 - 07/07/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 34 - 08/04/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 35 - 09/08/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 36 - 10/06/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 37 - 11/03/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 38 - 12/08/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 39 - 01/05/2015
      EXCLUDE DATE 40 - 02/02/2015
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:     1
    Daily Windows:
          Monday     22:00:00  -->  Tuesday    07:00:00

  Schedule:          exmon_incr
    Type:            Differential Incremental Backup
    Frequency:       every 1 day
    Maximum MPX:     1
    Synthetic:       0
    PFI Recovery:    0
    Retention Level: 0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:   1
    Fail on Error:   0
    Residence:        (specific storage unit not required)
    Volume Pool:     (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:    (same as specified for policy)
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 05/21/2012
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:     1
    Daily Windows:
          Sunday     22:00:00  -->  Monday     07:00:00
          Tuesday    22:00:00  -->  Wednesday  07:00:00
          Wednesday  22:00:00  -->  Thursday   07:00:00
          Thursday   22:00:00  -->  Friday     07:00:00
          Friday     22:00:00  -->  Saturday   07:00:00
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We have 4 master servers and more then 800 policies,  Obviously its very tedious task. I want to get rid of this thing. I have the following idea in mind.

 

Create a seprate set of policy only for infinity quaterly backups and remove the quaterly schedules from the regular policy.

Now setup the monthly backups like "first monday of every month".  Same should be done with the quaterly infinity policy also.

During the regular times keep the infinity policy disabled and regular policy running. Durin the quaterly month in first week specifically enable the infinity policy and disable regular policy. (This can be done using simple script)

 

This is far beeter then what we are following  right now. If someone have other ideas please share them.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

(If I am not clear please let me know)


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