This should be a simple answer but I haven't found it. I am running full backups 5 nights a week using Backup Exec 9.1. When I go to restore the dates I have to choose from are not what one would think they would be. They are scattered and spread out instead of daily like the backups. For example, last week I ran full backups each night but when I go to restore I only have say Monday to choose from. I am using an HP SureStore Tape Loader on a Dell server running Windows 2000 Server SP4. I have 4 sets of 4 tapes that are rotated daily and shipped off site.
If anyone can shed some light on this I would certainly appreciate it! or at least point me in the correct direction for troubleshooting!
Rather than just "going to restore", insert the tape you want to restore from, do an inventory, then catalogue. Then right click the tape and hit "restore". You may find it has the correct data after all.
You are correct there is only 1 media set involved. I'm not sure what you mean by the OPP for the sets. I'm going to assume Overwrite Protection and that is set to None. When I do a restore I would only like to see the 4 sets in rotation, so nothing past 4 days. When I do a restore now I have some dates way back in November 2005.
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Sorry for the late response, this thread go buried somehow .
Anyway.
I'd recommend setting the Global Ovewrite to "Partial" and the media set OPP to 3 days. this will prevent Backup Exec from writing to a tapeset for three days after the last file on the tape is closed.
