Best utilization of USB HD for B2D
I am using Backup Exec 2010 R2 to backup an SBS 2008 server. We are utilizing 3 USB hard drives as media, compression, and encryption. We are rotating the USB drives daily. The backup job writes to a...
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Do I understand correctly that you guys disagree???
PKH,
Do you mean that if I set the job to overwrite scratch before recyclable, set overwrite protection to none, set append to infinite, and threshold to 50GB, BE will always leave about 30% of the USB drive free? I'm not saying that this is what I'm going to do (I will use OPP), but I did try that and it is what seemed to happen.
Would this be different if I set append to off and the threshold to 0, as Ken suggested in the first reply? Does setting threshold to 0 prevent the job from pausing once the disk is full and force overwrite of the oldest job?
Thanks again.
Joe Welna
