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Guev007
Level 3
11 years ago

Appending data to a tape media

I'm having the followin problem: Platform: BE2012 on Server 2003 x64 Servers being backed up are all Win 2003. When running a full backup job and one tape media is completed filled up, the ba...
2012
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Donald_Eady's avatar
    Donald_Eady
    11 years ago

    This is by design.. Backup exec is unable to append to media when spanning tapes... A job when Starting and begin by appending to a tape that has already been written but if you ran out of space during a job as in your example it must continue writting at the begining of the next tape 

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Donald_Eady
Level 6
11 years ago

This is by design.. Backup exec is unable to append to media when spanning tapes... A job when Starting and begin by appending to a tape that has already been written but if you ran out of space during a job as in your example it must continue writting at the begining of the next tape