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B2D overwrite protection set but always shows "Overwritable"!

Lenny_Burns
Level 3

‎08-11-2005 04:32 PM

For the life of me I cant understand WHY WHY WHY this product is so hard to get it to do the simplest of things!!!

Anyway,
I set the overwrite protection period on my differential - weekly set to 1 WEEK.

This is so that the HDD that is in the slot, will fill up with media BEFORE beginning to overwrite older media.

However, when I delete ALL media from the system, and restart the new differential backup, it creates new B2D files on the drive and then marks them as OVERWRITABLE in the overwrie protection period.

I have the job set to use the right media set.
Differential - weekly.
This set is told to not allow overwrite for 1 week!

The media being created shows as being part of this set.

Why in the WORLD is there no overwrite protection date on the properties page from thes media files?!
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ray_littlefie1
Level 6

‎08-11-2005 07:23 PM

Could you elaborate on your sentence "However, when I delete ALL media from the system...."

Do you mean you are manually deleting the B2D files on the hard drive (outside of Backup Exec GUI) ? Or did you mean something else.
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Lenny_Burns
Level 3

‎08-11-2005 07:56 PM

I have removed all the media from the mediasets on the media tab.

AND i deleted the disk files.

I wanted to start over with a mediaset that would be definatly new and un influenced by any other media.
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ray_littlefie1
Level 6

‎08-12-2005 09:46 AM

There is a global Overwrite protection, found on Tools -> Options - Media Management. Verify that in your situation it is NOT set to "None".
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Ashutosh_Tamhan
Level 6

‎08-17-2005 05:31 AM

You might find the following technotes helpful:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/237374.htm
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/192265.htm

Regards,
Ashutosh

NOTE : If we do not receive your reply within two business days, this post would be marked assumed answered and would be moved to answered questions pool.
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Lenny_Burns
Level 3

‎08-17-2005 05:45 AM

The global setting WAS the problem!

Usually local settings override global settings in nearly every tool that uses a hierarchial settings method like this!

Take Active directory for example!

Good grief.
Like i said at the start, why do the simplest things about using thid system have to be so hard?

Thanks for reminding me of the global setting!
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