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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. W...
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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!