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bigbigpig
Level 2
9 years ago

Pause a backup job

I have a backup job that runs over a pool of 2 RDX drives.  A lot of content was added recently to the servers and both disks in the pool are full.  I need to pop in another RDX disk, erase it, then ...
2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Backup Exec (media server only)
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    9 years ago

    You cannot do any other operation like erase while a backup job is on-going.  You need to cancel the job, prepare your disks and then continue from there.  Alternatively, if you are not using BE 2012 SP4, then move the backup sets on the third disk to the scratch media set so that they are immediately overwritable.

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Colin_Weaver
Moderator
9 years ago

An extra point of information - if the backup set that fills your RDX disk is using GRT technology then you cannot span between disks and have to make sure enough space for the GRT set is on one disk. This of course means that any GRT set that won't fit on one empty RDX cartridge will not complete the backup correctly.