Archive schedule

Plan on performing some level of archiving daily. Under extreme circumstances, you might even want to perform archiving more than once a day. For example, you might want to archive files three times a day before a major release or during a major bug fix phase.

The three levels of archiving are:

Here is an example of an incremental archiving strategy. Each archive level is performed according to the following schedule:

Table 1. Tape numbers
Levels Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu
0 1 - - - - - - - - 10 -
1 - - - 4 - - 7 - - - -
2 - 2 3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 11

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