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- From: fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell)
- Subject: Arcserve volume exclusion & tape naming
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.161946.17030@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:19:46 GMT
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- Recently we began using Arcserve for server backups on our NW
- 3.11 server. The hard disk is divided into two volumes, SYS and
- DATA, that have about 150 megs between them. In addition there
- is a CD-ROM mounted as another volume.
-
- We decided that, rather than using a more complex archiving
- scheme, it would be most convenient to us to do a complete backup
- of SYS and DATA each night, appending to the end of a single 1.2-
- gig tape that we would leave in the drive all week. Each week we
- would replace the tape and format a new one. After about four
- weeks we would recycle the first tape and use it again. So at
- any given time we would have tapes of nightly full server backups
- for the past month or so. We have this set up as an "unattended
- job," as this seemed the only way to get the tape cycling scheme
- we preferred.
-
- At this point I'm wondering two things ...
-
- 1) When our CD-ROM was offline, we were able to set up the
- server backup as a single job. However, when we brought the CD-
- ROM back up, we found that Arcserve proceeded to back it up after
- doing SYS and DATA, and there seemed to be no way in the menu to
- exclude the CD-ROM (or any other volume). As a workaround I
- created two jobs in the "unattended jobs" menu, one to do SYS and
- one to do DATA, and timed them five minutes apart so they execute
- sequentially. Is there any way to combine them in a single job
- and exclude the CD-ROM volume?
-
- 2) Is there any way to set up an unattended job without
- specifying the name of the tape to write to (i.e. to accept
- whatever tape is in the drive)? If we give our four tapes
- different names (week_1, week_2, etc), it is then necessary to go
- in and edit the job to reflect the new tape name when we change
- tapes. The only other way around it I can see is to give all the
- tapes the same name ("server_backup") and distinguish them by
- what is written on their labels. This, however, seems to open
- the door for some prospect of confusing the tapes.
-
- Thanks for any suggestions!
-
- Frank
- frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
-
-