01-27-2015 04:36 AM
I currently have a job that backs up the Exchange databases to disk, a duplicate job then runs which copies the B2D to tape.
The backup to Disk job is holding 2 nights worth of the backups on the disk. Is there a way I can reduce this to only hold 1 night which gets overwritten the following day?
I've looked at all the options but dont seem to be able to find anything.
Many thanks!
01-27-2015 04:49 AM
... yould set the retention period on the media set used for the B2D job.
Thanks!
01-27-2015 06:46 AM
Hi Craig,
I thought that too, this media set is used by another job too and that only stores 1 backup.
The settings for the media set are currently set to 12 hours overwrite and 12 hours append yet I still get 2 days of Exchange backups.
Any ideas?
Many Thanks
01-27-2015 07:08 AM
01-27-2015 07:17 AM
Thanks,
The job is set to overwrite and takes less than 2 hours to complete.
01-27-2015 06:25 PM
Check your joblogs and see whether your jobs are overwriting the same .bkf file. If so, then the other .bkf is redundant and can be deleted. In the Media tab, associate it with the Retired Media set, right-click on it and select delete. This will delete it from BE. You would have to go to the disk to delete it physically.
01-27-2015 10:02 PM
And under global options, are the jobs set to use recyclable media before scratch media or vice-versa ?