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New Tape Different Day

Joel_Watz
Level 2
I would like to set up my tape backups so that a new tape will be used each day during a 3 week 7 day rotation. I would backup the same servers and their selections each day. Yes, I have 21 tapes to support this. How do I set up Veritas?
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Ken_Putnam
Level 6
Standalone drive or autoloader?

Joel_Watz
Level 2
I am using an autoloader.

Ken_Putnam
Level 6
You could create just one job, pointed at the library as a whole. then re-label/quick erase the tapes starting at slot 1, so that Backupexec will grab them in slot order. Make the Overwrite Protection Period of the media set 19 days.

Slightly more work would be to partition the library. With a seven slot autoloader create a slot for each day, then create seven jobs, each pointing to a specific slot. Veritas treats each partition as a Vitual Tape Drive, so Monday's job will only write to Monday's slot. Remember that you need to inventory all slots when you change magazines, so that Veritas know what tapes are now mounted.