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Medias does not recognize the Overwrite protection settings on a Media set

Bjoern_Dirchsen
Level 2

‎12-12-2006 02:56 AM

Hi,

I have quite a number of B2D "medias" (1Gb files) that has been created during backups some time ago (02-oct-2006).

All of these medias has been moved to a Media set with Overwrite protection set to 6 weeks and append period to Infinite.
All of these medias are listed as "Do not overwrite" even though they are more than 6 weeks old today. Only 1 or 2 of the "medias" are listed as overwriteable and that is medias that is not full yet.

How do I get backupExec 9.1 to overwrite the medias that, according to my understanding, should be overwriteable?

I'm soon going mad on this one!
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Ken_Putnam
Level 6

‎12-12-2006 07:02 AM

When you say All of these medias has been moved to a Media set with Overwrite protection set to 6 weeks do you mean that after the job, you moved a block of B2D files to a new/different media set?

If so, the Overwrite of the new media set is applied as of the time that they were moved, so they will not be ovewritable until 6 weeks after the move
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Bjoern_Dirchsen
Level 2

‎12-13-2006 02:07 AM

Yes, the medias was moved after the job completed. They were moved to the new set on 12-oct-2006 - but that's still more than 6 weeks.

If I try changing the Overwrite protection period to e.g. 6 HOURS, we should be on the safe side, but the result is identical.

The only overwriteable media is the not-yet-full media B2B000049 (see below).
If I try changing the Overwrite Protection Period to 20 weeks, B2D000049 now becomes protected until 19-02-2007, so it looks like it's only full medias that cannot be overwritten regardless of the Overwrite Protection Period setting.


Sample of the medias listed in the "HD-TotalBackups" Media set:

Media Label Allocated Date Overwrite protected until Avail. Capacity
B2B000049 02-10-2006 Overwritable 499Mb
.
.
B2B000057 02-10-2006 Inifinite - Don't allow overwrite 0
B2B000058 02-10-2006 Inifinite - Don't allow overwrite 0
B2B000059 02-10-2006 Inifinite - Don't allow overwrite 0
B2B000060 02-10-2006 Inifinite - Don't allow overwrite 0
.
.
B2B000079 17-10-2006 Inifinite - Don't allow overwrite 0
B2B000080 17-10-2006 Inifinite - Don't allow overwrite 0
B2B000081 17-10-2006 Inifinite - Don't allow overwrite 0
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Sharvari_Deshmu
Level 6

‎01-03-2007 03:30 AM

Hello,

Please install the service pack 4a and then verify the result:

VERITAS Backup Exec (tm) 9.1 for Windows Servers revision 4691 - Service Pack 4a - Includes Critical Security Update
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http://support.veritas.com/docs/280008

Thanks,
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