Planning User Backup and Archive Schedules

When planning user backup and archive schedules, consider the following:

• Best times to perform backups. For user backups, this is the time most convenient to the users.

If possible, do not permit user backups and archives when automatic backups are occurring. If an automatic backup is running when a user submits a backup or archive, NetBackup queues the user job, unless there is a limiting setting, such as Limit Jobs per Policy (a policy attribute) or Maximum Jobs per Client (a master server Global Attributes host property). If the automatic backup is long enough, the user job will miss the backup window. Once started, a user job also delays automatic backups and can cause them to miss the backup window.

• Storage unit. Using a different storage unit can eliminate conflicts with automatic backups.
• Volume pool. Use a different volume pool if you want to manage the media separate from the automatic backup media.

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 Caution    If the retention period is not long enough and the retention period expires, it can be difficult or impossible to restore the archives or backups.

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• Retention. It is usually best to set the retention period for archives to infinite, since the disk copy of the files is deleted.