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Lack of media space

hugoramone
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Gentlemen,

I work with the backup exec 2012, and I have a problem, I have to backup 3.5 TB of data, and it has 2 LTO6 media, and the backup does not fit the media, it seems to be duplicating, this has been happening this last week , Before the backup fit, does anyone have any tips? I do not know what to do ... Thanksfita-flsp02.PNGflsp02.PNG

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Colin_Weaver
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if you are appending to tapes and not overwriting then the tape will be used until it fills up and then stay overwrite protected based on the overwrite protection in the media set beinfg used from the point in time you fill the tape.

 

Because tape is a linear write proeces you cannot overwrite part of a tape it has to be the whole of the tape and appending moves that protection back each time you write more data into it (until it is full).

 

Also if you fill a tape during a job, the second taope used has to be overwritten - we do not append to a second tape.