Limit storage space on backup folder

What is the retention period of the media set?

The only settings I have available to me in my media set are append and overwrite. Retension I thought was use with a tape drive. I am backing up to a hard drive.

I was just looking for a way to limit the space Veritas is using on that hard drive using a setting in veritas. I can accomplish it through windows but dont want to unless I have to.

"Retention" as in Time to retain the tape, it is also called OPP - Overwrite Protection Period.

If you set that to say two months, after that Vertias should reuse the space on the B2D Folder

Hello,
The disk storage can be controlled in the following ways:
1. As Ken said you may set the media rotation in such a way that the tapes get overwritten periodically and the tape storage is limited.
2.In the backup to disk folder properties:
- The Max size of the B2D files is 1Gb by default
- The max no. of backup sets is 100 by default.
Which means the max. size of all the backup sets put together will be 100X1 Gb.
- The next parameter Disk space Reserve allows you to maintain a disk space in reserve.
These parameters can be adjusted to suit your requirements.

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My OPP is set at 4 weeks, but the backup files keeps increasing. It was mentioned that the max backup files is 100. I am almost there, so hopefully the problem may take care of itself when it reachs 100 files. Thanks for all the assitance.

Hello Ward,
Keep us Updated then. We will await an Update from you.

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Thanks.