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BackupPlans
Level 2
13 years ago

Backup to disk failing - No appendable media

Hello, I am running Backup Exec 2010. I am currently backing up to removable 1TB hard disks and am rotating them on a daily basis. The intention is to backup until the disks are full and then t...
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  • Kiran_Bandi's avatar
    Kiran_Bandi
    13 years ago

    When you say design proper media rotation - do mean alter the overwrite and append dates

    Yes... 

    Earlier you could have used "Append to media, Overwrite if no Appendable media is found" option with less/no append period. Which resulted in overwriting backup data.

    If i were you i will configure it in the following way. 

    If the disk is capable of having a month of backup data (consider 90% of disk size while calculating this), configure media sets with 30 days OPP and 0 hours AP. COnfigure jobs to Append only and select media management setting as Overwrtie Recyclable media in target media set before overwriting SCRATCH meida. 

    Change the numbers according to your backup data sizes, frequency you run them and frequency you use the disks.

    This BLOG also might help.