Zack_R
15 years agoLevel 2
Backup Exec 2010 w/USB HDDs / Insert Removable Media Alerts
Hello, first time poster (thanks for having me)
I am pretty new to admin work with BE, we used to use 10d but someone before myself had set that up and it used different hardware. Recently we have been trying to setup BE2010 with 5 removable USB HDDs Monday-Friday. I've done plenty of searching and the number of posts about this topic make it obvious that it's not a very simple way to go about things.
I think I have it working, as I'm on day 3 of un-monitored 100% success backup jobs, but I do have a few questions. I will list my configuration at the bottom of this post. My main question is having the "Insert Removable Media" alert in between every .bkf (and I think therefore between every 4GB) normal? I set the auto response to that alert as Yes, and the respond time to 1 minute, which is what finally got overnight backups working to 100% - but this seems to be adding about 1.5hrs to the backup time, as it looks like I have 80 alerts. There must be a better way? I guess I am mainly wondering if this is normal behavior is there a way to make the response time lower than 1 minute, or do i have this configured incorrectly for my hardware? I am still pretty unclear on exactly how media sets work and are kept track of, I am just seeing 100% success with 0 alerts at the end of the jobs and figured I was off to a good start.
Some info on our system:
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Windows 2003 Standard with BackupExec 2010 backing up itself, a 2k8 x64 domain controller, a 2k standalone server, and an XP workstation being treated as a server (with SQL 2005).
5 1TB USB HDDs in enclosures labeled BACKUP1 through BACKUP5 (Mon-Fri).
Total backup size ~320GB.
I kept the default options for adding devices except that I changed the low diskspace setting to 20GB (4GB file sizes).
Backup Job properties: "When this job beings" -> Overwrite media (I saw many people say Overwrite is the best option for USB HDDs)
HDD/Device properties (Devices added to the same pool):
A different letter assigned to each hard drive, I haven't had any problems with letters changing as they get swapped: BACKUP1 -> E:, BACKUP2 -> F:, ... BACKUP5 -> I: (all B2D folders aimed at the root)
Maximum size for backup-to-disk-files: 4GB
Maximum number of backup sets per backup-to-disk file: 100
Under each device is a matching folder listed (ie BACKUP2: FLDR000002)
Media Set properties:
Overwrite protection period: 1 Weeks
Append period: Infinite - Allow Append
I haven't touched Media Vault settings at all.
Services:
I have 2 scripts that stop & restart all BE services an hour before the scheduled backup time.
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I welcome any and all questions, comments, suggestions, tips, anything. I can provide screenshots if those would help too. Just now looking at my list of alerts I am even more confused, as last night's backup was on device BACKUP2, and there are dozens of alternating alerts referencing BACKUP1 & BACKUP4 (the only other 2 devices currently added to the device pool... I was starting new the end of last week and adding the missing ones as I went...). Now I'm wondering if the problem is having BE realize which devices are not available. That may be a whole 'nother issue though, and I'd like to see if this post gets any replies first.
Thanks everyone.
Zack