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BE 2012, Combine Backup Jobs to minize Tape Activity

JuergenB
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In 2010 R3 i had some jobs combined to a single job.
This single job had to backup 4 servers onto one tape!

With this single job, the tape had to rewind only once and could be used in one "streaming action".

Now if i create Backup Jobs for 3 Servers i will have 3 Jobs waiting for each other to complete and every job will tell the library to get the tape and rewind or wind forward to the next empty space.

Is this by design or can i create jobs as a single streaming job?

Maybe someone can explain this to me.

Thanks

Jürgen

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Siegfried
Level 3

Hello Sush,

 

Thanks for this note but this is not possible (too hard):

  1. Determine the total amount of time it took to run the original full backup in the previous version of Backup Exec. 
  2.  
d.      Follow the on-screen prompts. Ensure that you set the append period to a length of time that is slightly longer than the total amount of time that it took to run the full backup job in the previous version of Backup Exec.

HAMZAOUI_Omar
Level 5
Partner Accredited

Hi,

The onmy solutins is to create Storage Pool with multiple Tape Drive.......

jelutz
Level 3

BE 2012 seems to take a long time with little data transfer when I have several small incrementals from the same server on disk, duplicated to tape. I'm assuming that it's rewinding the tape after every backup set. Can I get BE to write these (from the same job) all at once without the rewinds?