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20 years agoLevel 2
How to determine when your backup tape is full
I have been using Backup exec 10.0 now for about 2 weeks on my new server. We are backing up to a LTO 200GB-400GB tape drive. The first week we were backing up around 294GB of data sucessfully. Over the past week, when I get to the office each morning, the backup job from the night before is still showing active and it has a job status of " ? Loading Media". It appears that it has backed up about 296GB of data and I am wondering if the tape is somehow full, and it is requesting another tape? How can you find out if your tape is out of room or not? I have the my backup job set to overwrite media only, and I realize that I can't expect to get a full 400GB of data written to the tape, but I would think that it would hold more than 296GB when it should be able to hold closer to 400GB