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2nd: Is there a way to automatically remove backup jobs in a policy once they become a certain number of days old? I am out of space on my 12 Tb array.
3rd: Can 1 and 2 be combined? - I would like my backups to go like this:
Dailies backup to Disk - then to tape,
weeklies backup to disk - then to tape, removing the past week's dailies
Monthlies do the same as above
Quarterlies do the same as above,
Yearly same again.
First. make sure that all your B2D jobs are Overwrite, not Append
Use different media sets for each job (Daily, Weekly, Monthly etc)
For each media set, set your OPP appropritately. ie:
if you want to keep dailies for a day only, set the OPP to 12 hours
for the weeklies, set OPP to 6 days
for the monthlies, set OPP to 27 days etc
Also from Tools\Media Management, make sure that the option to "reuse overwriteable media in the target media set befor scratch media" is selected. If the other "use scratch media" is selected, BackupExec will fill the entire volume before reusing any BKF fiels
use the templates provided to setup B2D2T. As soon as the backup-to-Disk job finishes, the Duplicate to Tape will start. (Make sure you do a Duplicate, not a standard backup.)
5th: My Exchange backup is failing with an error telling me to install MS tools, which I have done. Any other ideas?
is the BackupExec service account an Exchange Administrator?
6th: My SQL backups are failing, it seems that the backups are unable to backup the logs and such. Again, I need major assistance.
Is the BESA a SQL Admin?
7th: Keep getting AOFO errors in my backups telling me that this option fails.
Where is AOFO failing. It is recommended that you put your database backups in separate jobs and do NOT include AOFO for those jobs