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hongevo
Level 3
15 years ago

Removeable B2D disks full

Hi all I have a single SBS2003 server running BES 12.5, with 2 removeable B2D disks. The job is configured to run from the RB2D Pool, and "append, overwrite if no append is available" - Over...
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    Ken_Putnam
    15 years ago

    When the option is set to "Use Overwriteable media in the target media set  before scratch"  Backup Exec will reuse BKF files in the media set before it will create new ones

    When set to "Use scratch media before Overwriteable", it will create new BKF files until there is no longer space available, then start reusing the oldest BKF files  So you need to select this option

    You will need to expire the data currently on the disk in order to overwrite it. The easiest way would probably be to set the OPP for that media set to 5 min for the first run of all Overwriteable jobs,  and then change it to whatever retention you need after the first job has completed

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hongevo
Level 3
15 years ago
Thanks Ken.

Can you just confirm for me:

If I set the job to plain old Overwrite, will it:

1. Overwrite each job regardless of how much space is left (in effect only keeping 1 job on the disk at a time)

2. Keep writing jobs until there is no space left, THEN overwrite? (this is what I want)

3. OR is that scratch media option you mentioned the way to get it to work as number 2?

Thanks