Backup Exec 2012 - Media Set advice

1) You may also need to choose the ONLY duplicate last full backup setting, as depending on the config it may try and duplicate all the  backups that have not been duplicated if you do not choose that setting

2) depends on if you intend to append to any tape sets, if you do month 1 to a set of tapes, and don't want month 2 to append onto the end of the same set of tapes but start with a new tape, then do not set the append time to much longer than the amount of time you expect your complete set of monthly backups to take to finish, but do set the overwrite protection to either 6 months (which may sometimes mean the tape is kept for 7 months, OR just under 6 months (which you could set in weeks so that tapes are reused more or less every 6 months)

Whether or not you choose to append probably will be linked with whether or not you ever want to take one of the sets of montly tapes out of the library - if you have appended you would have to take the last tape used by the previous month out as well as it would contain the first tape of the month you are interested in.

If you do choose to append then bnbe awware that when teh tape yopu append 2 stops beign overwriet protceted will movbve back

i.e. Tape A is in use whe as the last tape of Month 1 - so it should become overwritable in month 7

Month 2 job runs in Month 2 and fills up the remaining space on tape A and moves the date at which that tape now becomes overwriteable back to Month 8 but leave the other tapes used by Month 1 overwriteable in Month 7