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Dan_Karwisch
18 years agoLevel 2
Thank you for your responses. Right, I'm only talking about 1 tape. No switching out. But I guess I'm a little ignorant on tapes. Let me see if I can clarify a little more. See below scenario:
Let's say I can fit around 5 jobs on one tape. If a tape has 4 jobs on it and the fifth won't fit, are you saying BackupExec can't just start from the beginning and start overwriting the first job w/o overwriting the data/jobs at the end of the tape? Do jobs have to be sequential?
And regardless of above answer, I'm even ok if it has to overwrite all the data/jobs on the tape but only once it has 4 jobs on it. I just don't want to overwrite every time when the tape can hold more jobs. I basically want to append as much as possible then overwrite the tape but w/o user interaction. Is BackupExec software not able to figure out how much space is left before deciding whether to overwrite or append? Thanks again.
Let's say I can fit around 5 jobs on one tape. If a tape has 4 jobs on it and the fifth won't fit, are you saying BackupExec can't just start from the beginning and start overwriting the first job w/o overwriting the data/jobs at the end of the tape? Do jobs have to be sequential?
And regardless of above answer, I'm even ok if it has to overwrite all the data/jobs on the tape but only once it has 4 jobs on it. I just don't want to overwrite every time when the tape can hold more jobs. I basically want to append as much as possible then overwrite the tape but w/o user interaction. Is BackupExec software not able to figure out how much space is left before deciding whether to overwrite or append? Thanks again.