Questions on: Health & Backup copy

[infused]

Hi Guys.

Couple of questions here:

1. If I want to do 7 day active backup and then implement a 4 week/12 month/2 year rotation I would do the following: Set a new backup job with 7 days retention. Create a backup copy job with 4 weeks/12 month/0 quarterly/2 year as the backup job, correct?

2. Scanning for bad backup chains: If you are using copy jobs, do you need this setup in your main backup job as well? The option I'm talking about is perform backup level health check.

Thanks.

[DGrinev]

Hi Kirk,

1. That’s correct (e.g. overview of retention policy for weekly backups).
2. You don't need to enable it for the backup job, since these options work separately for each job.


Thanks!

[infused]

Thanks. So if I have a copy job, I am safe just enabling it on the copy job?

[DGrinev]

Hi Kirk,

In order to provide best data corruption avoidance, I would recommend you to use Surebackup feature for the main backup jobs, and health check for the backup copy jobs.

Please find detailed information on existing discussion “Add a Backup Copy Job in the SureBackup job”

Thanks!