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Campbell_IT
Level 3
9 years ago

Re-duplicating backup sets for archival purposes

Hello, Running D2D2T backups using Backup Exec 2010 R3. One of our requirements is that we do a month-end archive of certain data (email & file shares). I have the robotic library set up as one la...
2010
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    Campbell_IT
    9 years ago

    Found my own solution. Since I hate when people don't follow up on their threads if they find a solution, I'm sharing it here.

    I ended up just using a couple of my standalone drives and every month I redirect the Full job to those two drives and I have my Month-end media preloaded. The standalone drives are LTO5 drives, so when we outgrow the LTO5 media, I will re-partition our tape library (which has LTO6 drives) and create a separate partition specifically for month-end tapes.

Campbell_IT's avatar
Campbell_IT
Level 3
9 years ago

Found my own solution. Since I hate when people don't follow up on their threads if they find a solution, I'm sharing it here.

I ended up just using a couple of my standalone drives and every month I redirect the Full job to those two drives and I have my Month-end media preloaded. The standalone drives are LTO5 drives, so when we outgrow the LTO5 media, I will re-partition our tape library (which has LTO6 drives) and create a separate partition specifically for month-end tapes.