How to put 2 tapes onto one?

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To: Everyone and Support

Please let me clarify. We are using Backup Exec version 10d. We have 2 backups scheduled, one for Exchange Mail and the mail store etc. and the other for data files backup.

We had a problem with the exchange backup with backup exec authentication (using exchange 2003 server) where both jobs could not be authenticated when the 2 backup jobs were as one, going to one tape. So now we have to have 2 backup jobs. One for exchange mail and the mail store etc. and the other for data backup.

We do monthly backups and have 2 tapes for each month.

The Exchange backup is 33GB and the Data backup is 33GB also , the backup tapes are 80GB native capacity. So the 66GB will fit on the 80GB tape.

We want to consolidate the data from 2 tapes onto one so we can retrieve some tapes as we are unable to get the exchange and data backups to happen on one tape.

Thanks.

[Hywel_Mallett]

To consolidate your existing backups, you can duplicate one set off your existing tape (see http://www.backupexecfaq.com/articles/using/how-to-duplicate-a-backup-set.html) to disk, then duplicate the set off disk to the other tape in the set, being sure to append to the tape.
For your future jobs, you can keep the backups as two separate jobs, but make the second job append to the tape.