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Mick_Duffin's avatar
Mick_Duffin
Level 3
12 years ago

Strategy with RDX drives

Hi, We have just replaced a broken tape loader with an RDX drive, we are using BE 2012 on Server 2008 R2 We do a full backup of 5 servers at the weekend then Mon - Thurs do an incremental backup....
2012
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Managing Backup Devices
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    12 years ago

    In BE 2012, you cannot append to a  Disk Cartridge Device which is what you would define on a RDX cartridge.

    Did you target the correct media set, i.e. the one which specify an OPP of 4 weeks?

    Click on the BE button ---> Configuration and Settings ---> Backup Exec Settings and check that you have set the Overwrite Protection Level (under Media Management) to either Partial or Full.  If this is set to None, then your OPP settings is not working.

Mick_Duffin's avatar
Mick_Duffin
Level 3
12 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for your help and replies..

One more question please...

What we are looking to do is with the incremental backups we would like to use a cart on Monday then the same cart on Wednesday but the Wendesday backup would just add to the cart and not overwrite the contents, is this possible and what would I need to do to achieve this? I'm assuming it will involve creating different media sets for the different days?

 

Regards,

Mick.