After much playing around here is what I have ended up with.
One GFS job that is staging to disk. The staging policy is set to purge failed jobs, begin the migration to tape 30 minutes after the backup is done, create a makeup job if the tape migration fails and keep all staging jobs around for...
Open up the backup job (modify), go to the Staging tab, click on the Policy button, select the Miscellaneous tab. There is a check box for "Purge Failed Sessions from disk immediately".
Although if you are talking about a successful backup from D2D but a failed D2T then by default the parent...
I finally just gave up and have set the staging purge for 31 days (M-F for 4 weeks). the monthlies won't be there but only about 2% of our restores are from monthlies so it is not a big deal to get it from tape.
I have been testing how to setup a D2D2T rotation and so far I have been sucessful. Here is what I have working...
A five day GFS rotation with M-Thur Incremental and Friday full with the last Friday of each month being the Monthly. We keep 4 weeks of incremental backups, 4 weeks worth of...
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