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Copy Recovery Points - Example Scenarios

The following example scenarios are provided to give you a better understanding of how the various options can affect your scheduled copying of recovery points.

For this example, assume that you configured your CA ARCserve D2D backup schedule as follows:

• Full Backup - Every 7 days
• Incremental Backup - Every 1 hour
• Verify Backup - Every 3 days

and assume:

• First backup is on Day #1 at 5:00PM (by default, the first backup is always a Full Backup)
• First Incremental Backup will be on Day #1 at 6:00PM (and every hour after)
• Recovery Points retention count is set to 31 (default number)
• Location "D" is configured as the copy destination

Scenario #1

For this scenario, the Copy Recovery Point settings are as follows:

• Copy after 4 backups
• Retain 1 recovery point

  Result:

  • At 8:00PM (after the 4th backup), the scheduled copy job will run and consolidate all 4 recovery points into a single recovery point and store it at destination D.
  • At 12:00 midnight (after the 8th backup), the next scheduled copy job will run and consolidate all 8 recovery points into a single recovery point and store it at destination D.

    The previous recovery point is removed from destination D because the setting is to retain only 1 recovery point at the destination.

Scenario #2

For this scenario, the Copy Recovery Point settings are as follows:

• Copy after 4 backups
• Retain 4 recovery points

  Result:

  • At 8:00PM (after the 4th backup), the scheduled copy job will run and consolidate all 4 recovery points into a single recovery point (Recovery Point #1) and store it at destination D.
  • At 12:00 midnight (after the 8th backup), the next scheduled copy job will run to create Recovery Point #2 and store it at destination D.
  • At 4:00AM on Day #2 (after the 12th backup), the next scheduled copy job will run to create Recovery Point #3 and store it at destination D.
  • At 8:00AM on Day #2 (after the 16th backup), the next scheduled copy job will run to create Recovery Point #4 and store it at destination D.
  • At 12:00 noon on Day #2 (after the 20th backup), the next scheduled copy job will run. A new recovery point will be created and the first recovery point (created after the 8:00PM backup on previous day) is removed from destination D, because the setting is to retain only 4 recovery points at the destination.

Scenario #3

For this scenario, the Copy Recovery Point settings are as follows:

• Copy after 1 backup
• Retain 4 recovery points

  Result:

  • At 5:00PM (after the 1st backup), the scheduled copy job will run to create a single recovery point (Recovery Point #1) and store it at destination D.
  • At 6:00PM (after the 2nd backup), the next scheduled copy job will run to create Recovery Point #2 and store it at destination D.
  • At 7:00PM (after the 3rd backup), the next scheduled copy job will run to create Recovery Point #3 and store it at destination D.
  • At 8:00PM (after the 4th backup), the next scheduled copy job will run to create Recovery Point #4 and store it at destination D.
  • At 9:00PM (after the 5th backup), the next scheduled copy job will run. A new recovery point will be created and the first recovery point (created after the 5:00PM backup) is removed from destination D, because the setting is to retain only 4 recovery points at the destination.