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Yakovleva_J's avatar
Yakovleva_J
Level 3
11 years ago

Backup Exec Library Partition

 

 

I have a tape drive HP 1/8 g2. From cartridges are created several partition on 1-2 cartridge.
when creating a backup job for the server to a storage device, choose one of the partition. Where to specify a period of storage of backup copies?

In the " Memory" when  select a specific section such an option,  It appears when  select " Any available storage ."
How to make so that in the schedule for a server backup at full and differential copying with a different period of storage of copies to use an identical set of media (1 section)?
 

Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)

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  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Partitions are soft divisions of slots and have nothing to do with the media retention settings.

    You can check this on the media set properties, and you're looking for Append and Overwrite Protection settings. This allows tapes to be retained, and returned to the Scratch set once they are "expired".

    You can select the actual partition you want to use in the job setup. You don't mention the version of Backup Exec, so check below for BE 2010 and BE 2012:

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH27909 (BE 2010)

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH210959 (BE 2012)

    Thanks!

  • Vishal_Shinde's avatar
    Vishal_Shinde
    Level 5
    11 years ago

    Hello,

    I am unable to understand the question, can you please be a bit simpler.

    may be you can break the question and probably add the scren shot to eloborate the same.

    Kind Regards,
    S

  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    Just to elaborate on Craig's answer - you configure your media set with it's overwrite protection (and append) period settings first, using the Storage section of the BE 2012  console (and not as part of the job itself). Once you have done this, you then edit the job and in the same screen where you choose the partition, you also choose the media set you configured for your requirements.