FS housekeeping.

[TechnicalScott]

Hi,

I have a 1.4TB offsite storage facility which I throw critical SQL databases and other stuff to every night. Now this storage is starting to fill up - my question is : I know that I can prune my database of information but how can I prune the storage area when I don't see any physical files - just the BS header tag and then loads of backup files which are created bt the BS backup.

I really want to delete stuff older than 10 days but not destroy any other files which house the recent backups.

Cheers

Scott

 

[davidmichel]

Are you using BrightStor ARCserve Backup? If not you got the wrong forum.

 

[TechnicalScott]

Its Brightstor Arcserve 11.5 for Windows

 

[blakey2]

Hi Scott,

I am a bit of a newbie so pls take this with a grain of salt.

I assume the 1.5TB is treated as a disk/filesystem?

Assuming that it is, why not create 10 (heck 14 directories) called monday1 monday2 tuesday1 tuesday2... etc.

Now make each of these a file system device.

Create 10 (or 14 backup jobs) - painful to administer if you need to modify them..

Have each of the jobs run every 10th (or 14th day), set the group which it backs up to as the appropriate FS Device/Group and set it to overwrite the data.

This would retain the 10 (or 14) most recent jobs, and automatically overwrite the old data.

This is more or less the strategy I utilise, but on a much smaller scale (300GB per week - full sat backup differential nightly backups). - I have not found Arcserve to be so useful in defining rotation schemes with removable disks - but perhaps someone can shed some light on this!

Hope this made sense?

Cheers - Chris.