02-02-2014 03:41 PM
Hi All,
Can somebody shed some light on how backups and verify works!
I have an client which Uses Backup Exec 2010 R3 on server 2003 which backs up to USB disk Drives (I know, not the best solution, but this is how they want to backup their data)
The Client is supposed to rotate the Drives each day as I am not onsite to manage this for them.
Their Backups are as follows:
Monday - Thursday - Differential for Data and Full for SQL.
Friday - Weekly Full Backups for Everything.
Unable to determine ADAMM media identification. Catalog query failed
Drive and media mount requested
Media Label: B2D022693
Media Label: B2D022694
Media Label: B2D018899
My question is this:
Is this a result due to the client not using the same USB Drive for previous full weekend backups (i.e using a drive that was used for a week backup) or is there something else I need to be looking at?
Regards,
Craig
02-02-2014 05:35 PM
1) Check that your rotation scheme is set up correctly. See my article below
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-rotate-external-harddisks
2) It is not a good idea to scatter the full and incremental backups across a couple of disks. It complicates the recovery process and if they do upgrade to BE 2012, then there will be more complications. Instead of rotating out the disk every day, they should do it weekly, just before the full backup.
3) They should always use overwrite when backing up to disk. There is no advantage in appending to disk media. In fact, for BE 2012, it does not allow you to append to disk media.
4) As an aside, if they are not on R3, then I would suggest that they upgrade to BE 2010 R3 which is the latest version. Their existing licence keys will work. You can download BE 2010 R3 from either the fileconnect site or
02-03-2014 03:07 PM
Thanks for this.
I guess I should have added a bit more information.
BTW, Nice article.
02-03-2014 06:02 PM
From your screenshot, it looks that they are using a RDX drive. For these drive, you need to use Removable B2D folders, rather than normal B2D folders. This has a bearing on your problem.