Adding 8 new Devices (scratch tapes) to a new Support

[kual]

Hi Everybody,

i would like to create a simply new backup of a locally disk.

The question is: how to add the new 8 devices (scratch tapes) to a New Support (as you can see in the attachment) as i can after do the backup job (mentioned before) using this New Support?

It's seems simple but i can't do it...

Thanks!

[RahulG]

1st thing to do it is run a quick erase on the media . Once you run a quick erase the media would get associated to sctrach media . To move the media to a media set you can do the following .

1. Drag the media from scratch media set to the media set you want . you can do that from the media tab in the BE console .

2. OR Let the backup job pick the tape automatically from scratch media set when it need, I mean when you run a backup job and the backup needs an overwriteable media , it would pick a media from scratch media set and once the backup is written to the tape it will assoicate that media with the one you specified in the backup job.

Note : Selection of the media from the scratch media set depends upon the following setting

Tools- Option-- media Management -- Overwrite scrach media before overwriting recyclable media

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hi kual,

Just a correction on the above...if those tapes are new, they're already scratch. There is no need to erase them at all. As they're new, and in scratch already when you put them into the library/autoloader and run the inventory (they'll show up as blue tapes!), they're not in any media set.

As they're not in any media set, there is no need to drag them anywhere. Leave them as-is.

Run your backup job, which will pick up the first tape and write data to it. It's going to put it into the correct media set. It will do this for each tape that gets used for whichever backup job!

You're simply running the job that used New Support as your media set...

Thanks!

[RahulG]

Well its just a best practive to run a quick earase on a new tape before writing on the tape and it is not a must that you should run a quick erase .

[CraigV]

...if you say so... =)

[Ken_Putnam]

If you do #1, then the tape is not writeable until the media set OPP has expired

Just leave it in the scratch set and let BackupExec move it when it is used