Running NetBackup 7.5.0.7 and EVault 10
I'm taking over for a little while our NetBackup solution and am trying to redo our EVault policies. From all of the whitepapers, manuals, etc I've read our policies are outdated and based on early versions of NetBackup. We also typically do disk-disk-tape.
Can you give me any insight on if I'm on the right path or anything that needs corrected? I read the basic configuration whitepaper and followed that as a template. I have four policies:
1. EV_OpenPartitions (Fingerprint and Open Partition) - Full is run from Fri night until Sun night. Differential is run Tue - Fri from 2AM - 6AM. The full in the begining might finish Sat morning, but once the partition gets fuller it creeps into Sunday so hence the bigger window.
2. EV_DIR (DirDB and MonitoringDB) - Full is run Mon morning and differentials are run Tue to Fri after the Open Partition differential backup window is closed.
3. EV_Index (IndexLocation)- Full is run Mon morning after EV_DIR window is closed and differentials run Tue to Fri after the backup window is closed.
4. EV_Closed (Closed Partition) - The EV guy manually runs it every 3 months or so.
My questions:
1. Most of our backups are typically backed up full and diff to disk and then do a synthetic to tape. Since I believe EV cannot do a synthetic I'm not sure how to get the backups to tape... do I just run yet another full to tape? At that point my backup windows are twice as long.
2. Am I correct in that policies 1-3 cannot be ran at the same time?
3. Right now the DIR and Index policies don't get run until Monday morning even though the Open Partition starts at Friday. I read that it's important to keep the backups as close to each other as possible. Is this an issue?
4. Am I hitting all the directives needed? We had a separate policy that only backed up the Fingerprints but then it was also backed up in the Open Partition policy. It seemed duplicated.
5. Is there a better way to backup? I've read somewhere about a batch script that kicks of jobs at certain times, but sounds sort of complicated.
Thanks for any help!