Append media problems, PLEASE HELP!!

In the backup settings/storage I've just set this morning for tonight, I've set it to "Partial protection" and unticked the prompt option. Before it was set to NONE but before that it was on FULL protection and wouldn't backup because it complained it was protected.

A setting of "none" would cause the overwrite issue you mentioned.  Things should be good now that you are set to "partial".

When you set the OPL to None, all the OPP does not apply and your tapes are unprotected.  You need to set it to either Partial or Full to protect your tapes.

You also need to make sure that you have sufficient overwritable tapes BEFORE the start of your jobs.

Note that for BE 2012, none of these applies to disk media which are managed by DLM, rather than media sets.

Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies :-).

Ok so both jobs have been set to "append to Media, overwrite if not appendable media is available". I want to add to the tape not overwrite it straight away.

Also the backup sets are set as followed;

Protection period - 3 weeks

Append period - Infinite - Allow append

And the backup settings/storage is set to "Partial Protection" prompt option unticked.

Fingers crossed that should work :-).

Thank you very much,

James

 

 

Hi guys,

Ok last night it still complained about overwrite protection problems when backing up the 2nd server and failed because it ejected the tape and wasn't put back in.

I've set the backups settings to everything I posted on the previous message :-) :-).

I've attached a screenshot of the error/information.

Many thanks,

James

Hi guys,

Any more suggestions on this please?

I've had to set the backup settings\storage to "none" and untick the prompt, then on the first job set to overwrite when it runs and the second job to "Append to Media, overwrite if no appendable media is available".

It will then backup both servers without a problem and doesn't overwrite the previous server job. I've had to set the backup sets as well to 1 day so it doesn't complain about overwriting protection errors as well.

I want to add data to the tapes for a couple of weeks before it starts overwriting data, so i can get more backups rather than a weeks worth on a tape then have to overwrite it.

Regards,

James

When you set the OPL to None, then your OPP does not apply and your tapes have no protection. You should set the OPL to either Partial or Full

I know that but I've done everything you've said and it still complains it's overwrite protected and won't go any further.

I want to set the OPP for 3 weeks because the tapes are change fortnightly and hope to get 1 months worth of DATA backups rather than just 2 weeks.

So when it comes round to the tapes being used for backup again, I wanted to append to it then it will overwrite on the next fortnightly occurence. Hope that makes sense

OPP was set to 3 weeks last time and it complained about the protection problems, so for now i've had to set the OPP to 1 day to make sure when it comes around to the next backup on that tape, it will backup the data at least without any protection complaints and had to change the OPL to None as well.

Kind Regards,

James

Read this document http://www.veritas.com/docs/000032654 Check that you have sufficient overwritable tapes BEFORE the start of your jobs

I've had to set the backup settings\storage to "none" and untick the prompt, then on the first job set to overwrite when it runs and the second job to "Append to Media, overwrite if no appendable media is available".

It will then backup both servers without a problem and doesn't overwrite the previous server job. I've had to set the backup sets as well to 1 day so it doesn't complain about overwriting protection errors as well.

Using "none" is a very bad idea, in my opinion.  Yes, it may get things running now, which is good to prove that the hardware works, but it will come back to haunt you at some point in the future when BE overwrites a tape that you wanted/needed to keep.

Please select "partial" and I suggest leaving the "prompt before overwriting imported media" checked.

The backup sets are set as followed;

Protection period - 3 weeks

Append period - Infinite - Allow append

Those setting look reasonable and match what you stated your intentions were, so I think that you are good there.

A common error is for users to put tapes into the media set manually.  The correct procedure is to leave the tapes in the "scratch" media set and let BE move them into the target media set at the time that the tape is actually used.

I believe that you are using a single stand-alone tape drive, without a robotic library.  Is that correct?

Do your two backup jobs use the same media set?  If you want to servers to backup onto one tape, they MUST use the same media set.  Your screenshot shows the media set name as starting with "Filer5".  If you have a different media set for the "CAD2" server backup job, then will never be on the same tape.

I thought that might be the case when using the None option but I won't be here when the backup is occuring.

So I'd need the prompt option to be unticked on the partial option and I've done the same anyway when I used the NONE option, it was unchecked too.

So it's possibly they way I've been introduced the tapes intially, I have been giving them a selected a Media set I created Manually.

I am using a single tape drive and the both servers are using the same media set when I have run the backups.

Thanks,

James