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nickfoster
Level 4
15 years ago

Back up File name???

 Hi All, I created some backup jobs that get written to an external harddrive rather than a tape drive. Is there a way to name the file that get written to disk? Right now it get a default name B2D0...
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    Brian_h1
    15 years ago
     Correct - You aren't actually renaming the file, you are renaming the tape name (ie. a bkf file is a tape to backup exec) It doesn't matter whether you are using a tape or a backup to disk file - renaming on both will do the same thing.

    And just so you know, you can acutally restore from the bkf files written with backup exec with the native windows backup program.

    Brian
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nickfoster
Level 4
15 years ago
 Brian,
I'm NOT using a tape drive. I'm using an external hard drive.
When the job runs it puts a file on the harddrive called B2D000007.bkf, so what your saying is i go to the media tab and rename this file to what ever i want?
 
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