Termly and end of year Backup to Rotated USB

[Jamie Pert]

Hello guys,

Just wanted to get your opinions on how best to achieve the following:

A school who currently used Veeam has recently purchased 4 x 4TB USB disks and want us to backup to these on 4 occasions each year. End of term 1, end of term 2, end of terms 3 and end of school year. We will then keep rotating these disks annually.

Just one retention point on each disk is required.

How do ou guys think this is best achieved. I must admit I'm almost tempted to use Veeam ZIP and make it a manual procedure. What makes it extra complicated is that terms don't finish on exactly the same dates year on year. I backup copy job would run 24/7 365 days a year and again setting dates to trigger this would be awkward.

I look forward to your ideas!

[veremin]

What do you think about a backup job that:

- is pointed to rotated repository
- has 1 restore point retention
- has monthly schedule (Last Sunday, for instance)
- has each 3rd month selected in "Months"

Thanks.

[Jamie Pert]

Thanks for the suggestion, the trouble is terms are not set to finish on re-occurring days year on year, hence my predicament.

[dellock6]

I see two ways here:
- complete geek way: what about setting the backup job with all the parameters but then have it scheduled in manual mode, and then using powershell to execute it via windows scheduler? I'm thinking about running it daily with the get-date cmdlet, and compare the actual date with the dates you need in a text file. On the needed dates, the actual date and the one in the text file will be the same, and the actual backup will be executed. Each year you just have to update the text file at the beginning of the year.

- practical and simple way: since it's just 4 times a year, just leave again the job to be manually executed, connect remotely those 4 times in a year and run it manually

[veremin]

Then, as Luca's suggested, disregard "schedule" part and execute the job four times a year in manual fashion. Thanks.

[Jamie Pert]

Agreed, thanks guys.