Hello,
I am running 10.0 with a robotic library on win2ksbs. I have the agents for sql server and Exchange. For reasons I can no longer recall, I had to create a separate policy for backing up Exchange and SQL Server separately from my main backup. The end result is 2 jobs daily; one doing everything but, and one doing Exch & SQL Server. They go to the same media set. I rotate through 4 media sets on a weekly basis.
Every Friday I have the main backup doing an overwrite, but not the exchange as I was afraid it would wipe out the just finished job. All of the other jobs do an overwrite or terminate. But the main friday backup seems to only recycle the tapes that it needs, not the media set. Because of this I have to manually erase tapes from time to time. I want all the tapes in the media set to be erased on Friday.
I suspect this has something to do with overwrite protection.
I was going to schedule a quick erase for each tape on the friday, but if my memory serves that removes it from the media set, which would not be good. Is there another solution?
Thanks
Marc Pelletier
Goldak Airborne Surveys