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Kiran_Bandi
Level 6
15 years ago

BackUp Exec 2010 Overwrite Protection

Dear all, Myself Kiran, joined recently with connect. I created a backup job which will take full backup of a client from Monday(1/06/2010) to Saturday(6/06/2010). And the requirement customer aski...
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  • Kiran_Bandi's avatar
    Kiran_Bandi
    15 years ago
    I tried it with BackUp-to-Disk.

    Created a media set TEST with overwrite protection period: 6 days

    Append period: 1 day.

    Created a backup policy and added 6 job templates.

    Scheduled one job for each day backup.

    Associated a selection list with it.

    Associated the media set TEST  with each job, not with the B2D folder.

    Then i tried takng two weeks backup.

    It worked absolutely fine.

    On eighth day first day's backup is overwritten, not total weeks.

    And not given any media overwrite protected error.

    If any of you have testing facility with tape test it and help me.






     
Dev_T's avatar
Dev_T
Level 6
15 years ago

Hello,

Means on tuesday, last tuesday's backup should be overwritten...
If you are writing DATA on an Overwritable Media, Backup Exec will not see whats on the TAPE, it will start overwriting from the beginning...so all the Backups of the last week will be overwritten by a single job on Monday....

Hope this helps....