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5 years agoLevel 6
Set the media retention period
Dear All, I want to dedicate the scope of media to run the full and differential backup and keep for 1 month and 2 weeks, so that I can full utitilization the media and not to buy extra media to ser...
- 5 years ago
NetBackup usually does a reasonable job of managing media using the default settings.
One thing that may interfer with this is if you are removing media from the library before it becomes FULL. Another possibility is that some of these media settings have been altered from their defaults.
I'm not entirely clear what the problem is that you are trying to solve. You should be able to estimate the amount of data that is backed up (on average) each differential and full backup. This should guide you to the number of media required for your backup cycle. You may want to review the NetBackup Administration Guide Volume 1 which has more details.