Looking to create media sets for a GFS rotation using external USB Drives

[pitremj]

I have about 4TB of Data I need to back up as follows

Monday to thursday Daily

Friday Full

I have multiple sets of 3x2TB usb drives

I would like to create my sets as week1-A, week1-B,week1-C then week2-A and so forth however every time i use a different week the only media set i see is week1 i don't seem to be able to create 4 sets of media. do i need to assign a different leter to every usb drive any help in configuring this would be greatly appriciated

[RahulG]

you may read the following article by Pkh

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-rotate-external-harddisks

[Ken_Putnam]

I would go with only one media set for each type of backup, Daily, Weekly Monthly

You can read through pkh's article to see how to rotate external hard drives in 2010 R1 and earlier

If you are on 2010 R2 or later, you just need to plug hte external drive in and BackupExec will detect and connect to it no  matter what driver letter it is mounted on