Bootstrap & Index 1

[ofladung]

Hi,

my next question - we discuss various backup strategies and would like to send a clone of our weekly full backup to another office for redundancy and it would be a good idea to include index and bootstrap information. Actually we use a separate pool for this information, but I don’t want to clone these tapes too. Would it make sense to add the save sets "index" and "bootstrap" to our daily and weekly pool instead?

Regards,
Oliver

 

[605]

I don't understand your question - if you do not want to invest in extra tapes, these backups have to go to another pool.

Which one you choose also depends also on the criteria for the other pools ... which only you know. So you must either decide yourself or provide more information.

 

[ofladung]

ok - let me try to explain it. Actually we save it to a special pool with its own tapes. I don’t want to clone these tapes too. It would be easier for me if I could save it to my daily and weekly tapes to store it on two locations (the regular backup and a clone). The question is: which information will be saved? Is it the complete index and bootstrap or a part from the last backup only?

 

[605]

- For the CFI - it simply depends on your schedule (level).
The index backups follow the backup level ... except for
incrementals. In this case, the index backup level will
be a differential (level 9).
- Bootsrap backups are always full backups.