05-10-2015 07:51 PM
Dear all,
I fnd the backup job always alert the Library insert message after it had been ran on 2 or 3 Sundays. Sunday is the beginning of backup cycle. The BE will change the tapes when the new backup cycle begins. I check the media writable peroid is only 1 day. But if I restart the BE server, the job is working normally, no need to do anything.
my BE is 2012 v14.0 Rev.1798 64bit, windows 2008 R2 Standard SP1. The tape library is IBM DS 3524.
Do you have the same problem, and how to slove it?
Thanks.
Jerry
05-10-2015 08:05 PM
When you get the the library media insert warning ? Is it when the there is no overwritable media available ? The backup you running is it appending to the Tape when it starts or overiting the tape ?
05-10-2015 08:20 PM
To avoid this message, check your append period and overwrite protection period to make sure that you have sufficient overwritable tapes in your library/partition BEFORE the start of your jobs.
05-10-2015 09:02 PM
After the job is completed, it will send the notification mail. On Sunday, I didn't receive the mail so I remote controlled the server and found that it had the alert. I restarted the server and then it came back to normal. The media set is only keep data for 1 day, and always is overwirtable and infinite allow append. I just change the protection period to 1 hour, and the level to none. Hope it could solve my problem.
Thank you.
05-10-2015 09:03 PM
I just change the protection period to 1 hour, and the level to none. Hope it could solve my problem.
Thank you.
05-10-2015 09:18 PM
When you set the overwrite protection level to None, it means that the OPP and AP does not apply. Your backups can be overwritten at any time. You might as well don't do any backups.
Likewise, with an OPP of 1 hour, you might as well don't do any backups because the backup would probably be overwritten when you need it.
You must set the OPP to a sufficiently long period to give you the protection that you need, but you need to have sufficient overwritable tapes for your jobs to use. See the document below for a better understanding of OPP and AP.
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH5459
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