What media rotation schemes does BackupAssist support?
In BackupAssist, each hardware media type has a different group of tailored rotation strategies, including a number of industry standard backup strategies that can be selected from and configured. While the pre-defined rotation schemes cover the majority of backup scenarios and strategies, each scheme can be customized should you need to perform incremental or differential backups, and so on. The ability to customize each scheme gives you the flexibility of designing your own backup schedule and rotation strategy. Also see our Common Usage Scenarios white paper for information about best backup practices.
There are two categories of schemes available: pre-defined and custom. Pre-defined schemes will perform full daily backups. Depending on the number of tapes you have, you can choose to do daily backups (5 tapes), or to include weekly tapes, and archived tapes. Our intermediate scheme uses 10 tapes, our professional scheme uses 14 (plus one for every year) and the Grandfather Father Son scheme uses 20. Custom schemes can be used if you need to perform incremental or differential backups, and append to tape. You have the flexibility of designing your own backup schedule and rotation strategy.
