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babulmiah
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13 years ago

Tape Selection in Media Set

Hi, I am using Backup Exec 11d installed on a windows 2003 backup server. there is a weekly media set with two tapes, one of them is highlighted in blue indicating scratch media and the second ta...
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    Kiran_Bandi
    13 years ago

    No, Appendable media. If no appendable medias are available in the media set, then BE will choose overwritable media.

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babulmiah
Level 3
13 years ago

The job(s) have been set up with:

"Append to media, overwrite if no appendable media is available".

The media has appendable period of 2 weeks, so in theory it should start to use the overwritable media?