Erase tapes in backup exec 2014
Hi Guys,
Im a newbie to Backup exec 2015 and i have a Tanberg robotic tape library atatched to my backup server and a san in the TB's
I have a few tapes that are set to overwrite protect infinate and i know they are now safe to use and overwrite
How \ can do i erase them and re use them?
Also i want to set up a new media set using a number of tapes for a complete Tape backup of the SAN which will span across many tapes.
I want to keep the data indefinately. What is the best overwrite \ apend setting for such a media set please?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Many Thanks
William
Append depends upon how many jobs (writes) do you want to add to the existing tape. For egs, if you have a 800GB capacity tape and if you can fit in 3 backups, you would set the backups to append. This will not impact the requirement of keeping the data indefinitely as this depends upon the overwrite protection.