Hello,
1.We would like to know whether hardware compression is supported by the device, you can try using the same.
2. You can choose to overwrite media for the tapes on which you intend to perform overwrite operation.
3. Regarding append to media:
When you select the option "Append to media; overwrite if no appendable media is available" or "Append to media; terminate if no appendable media is available" in the backup job, Backup Exec will look for appendable media first and it will append the data to the eligible media.
If the same backup job spans to another media, Backup Exec will always overwrite the next available media (it will not perform the append operation in case of spanning). If it does not find any overwritable media, a prompt "Please insert overwritable media" will be generated.
Thanks,
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