Does anyone know if it’s possible to automate NTBackup for the following strategy that uses a different tape for each week with two backup jobs:
Tape 1 – Normal backup job runs Monday
– Differential runs Tues – Fri (append)
Tape 2 – Normal backup runs Monday
– Differential runs Tues – Fri (append)
…and so on until the end of the month.
Month two the tapes get reused and overwritten.
2 .bks files: Weekly_Normal.bks scheduled to run every Monday night and Weekly_Differential.bks scheduled to run Tuesday through Friday.
This strategy was originally implemented because it is important for us to be able to restore a version of a document (spreadsheet, whatever) from a particular day. It is no longer working however because of hardware and backup software changes. It has worked really well for us (we also do a more thorough month end backup) and I would like to continue the scheme.
Thanks for any ideas.