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Backup Exec Tape Selection in Media Set

babulmiah
Level 3

Hi,

We have Backup Exec 11d and there are two jobs setup and they use tapes in the following order:

1) append to existing tape

2) if no appendable tape found then use overwritable media.

 

There is a Media Set called WEEKLY which has two tapes in slots 7 and 8 and they are both scratch media (overwritable).

How does Backup Exec determine which tape to use from the Media Set when both tapes are overwritable? Does it go by which tape is in which slot?

 

Any pointers would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

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AmolB
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The tape with oldest allocation date will be picked up by BE.

Colin_Weaver
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Also remember that the append setting ONLY applies to the first tape used by a job, if that same job fills the first tape any subsequent tape requests will always be overwrite operations

babulmiah
Level 3

Thanks guys, much appreciated.