Changing removable disks during abackup

[Keith_Howdle]

Is there any way to script a pause during a backup when the disk is full, I have checked the manuals and cannot find any reference in the scripting section, our back upon has now go over the size of the disk so I need to change disks. I have two drives connected to the media server and I can run a windows script to swap the drive letters over, but the media device needs to be paused to do this. This is for a weekly back up over the weekend hence there is no one around to manually do this.

[priya_khire]

Hello,

Backup Exec does not support swapping different hard drives in an attempt to use different physical devices for the same backup-to-disk folder in Backup Exec

For more information, refer to the tn below:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/276904

Also check the following link:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/239539

[Ken_Putnam]

If it is possible to have both disks online during the backups, you could define a second backup to disk folder on the second disk, and place both drives in the same Drive Pool, and then point the jobs at the Drive Pool rather than a specific backup folder

Backup Exec should then start on one and continue on the other when the first fills up