Okay. I think we are suffering from a naming problem here; my fault I'm new to BE.
In my OP I used the term GUI and defined it as "(Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers)". In both your replies you refer to "administrator console" and "console".
I've just dipped in to the "Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers - Administrator's Guide" and in Chapter 3 is a section called "Using the Administration Console". There are pictures and they definatley show the tool I am using (previously refered to as the GUI; henceforth refered to as the admin colsole).
Okay. I think we are suffering from a naming problem here; my fault I'm new to BE.
In my OP I used the term GUI and defined it as "(Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers)". In both your replies you refer to "administrator console" and "console".
I've just dipped in to the "Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers - Administrator's Guide" and in Chapter 3 is a section called "Using the Administration Console". There are pictures and they definitely show the tool I am using (previously referred to as the GUI; henceforth referred to as the admin console).
So, all the actions described in the OP were done with the admin console on the Windows Server where the BE services are installed. Therefore I have to disagree with
sazz. My experience is that I
must have admin privileges to access the system.
Colin let me try and explain how the jobs are configured (this is all legacy stuff I have inherited).
We have a Media Set with 5 tapes (no robots). The Media Set is configured with
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Overwrite protection - 20 days
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Append - forever
All our jobs are configured with "Append to media, overwrite if no appendable media". This is because e have multiple jobs running each day. By the end of the week there will be a tape in the drive that can be removed and taken offsite.
By the time Tape A is cycled back in to the tape drive more than twenty days have passed so the tape is overwritable. Unfortunately the tape is also appendable. If we put Tape A back in the drive without moving it to scratch first the jobs will just append to the tape (because the tape is appendable and the rule is "Append to media, overwrite if no appendable media"). If we continue like this the tapes become full and data is lost.
So instead we use the admin console to move the 'next' tape to Scratch Media which marks it as overwritable and ‘no appendable’. Now the new job will overwrite the tape and subsequent jobs will append.
That’s why we need to use the admin console each week. And the issue about admin rights is one of security and convenience.
Gavin