Hi
I am confused about something: on Friday afternoon, we always exchange all our tapes in the library and add new ones. The plan is, that the first tape backup done after this change of tapes is a full backup on WEEKLY media set (or monthly/yearly) and not a virtual full on daily media set . To prevent, that I a have second full backup every week (done to the daily media set - if no weekly full tape is in library after the exchange of the tapes).
So the "Start daily scan for GFS restore points" is set at the default of 00:00 for all tape jobs
Do I have to set now Friday or Saturday in the Schedule for weekly/monthly/yearly tape jobs, so that full backups to the weekly/monthly/yearly media tapes are done at midnight from friday to saturday?
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Re: GFS weekly full - which day is right if scan time is 00:00?
Hello Renato
If you want to have your weekly full on Saturday at 00:00, you need to set the GFS weekly to Saturday.
Make sure that the source job has created a full backup before the daily scan starts for the GFS restore point starts. If the last backup from the source job was an incremental backup, a virtual full backup will be created.
I recommend to schedule this full Friday evening and set the daily rescan to the time when the source job has finished its processing. Example:
--> Source job creates every Friday a full backup from 10pm till 2am.
--> Set the daily GFS rescan for Tapes to 3am. The tape will write the full backup from Friday evening to tape at 3am.
Best,
Fabian
If you want to have your weekly full on Saturday at 00:00, you need to set the GFS weekly to Saturday.
Make sure that the source job has created a full backup before the daily scan starts for the GFS restore point starts. If the last backup from the source job was an incremental backup, a virtual full backup will be created.
I recommend to schedule this full Friday evening and set the daily rescan to the time when the source job has finished its processing. Example:
--> Source job creates every Friday a full backup from 10pm till 2am.
--> Set the daily GFS rescan for Tapes to 3am. The tape will write the full backup from Friday evening to tape at 3am.
Best,
Fabian
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