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Single tape job/Media management

Lars_J
Level 3
Partner

One of my customers runs Backup Exec 2012 with a Exchange 2010 Full-Incremental B2D job. However, there are also a following tape job present but this is not configured as a duplicate job, but as a "standalone" tape job (full) (the customer simply wants it this way). So my question is - how does the media management work in this scenario? Especially Exchange jobs is quite sensitive about having a full backup run before the incremental backups are running, so what happens when the tape job runs? Does the incremental disk job see the tape job as a full backup, or are they totally independent from each other?

/Lars

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pkh
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Does the incremental disk job see the tape job as a full backup

Yes. Jobs do not care about the destination.

Jaydeep_S
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This Full and Incremental job to a mix of tape and B2D as a destination should run. However, the customer might have an issue restoring GRT from such Incremental jobs. It is better to keep Full and Incremental on a GRT job targeted to the same type of device, preferably Disk (B2D)

Lars_J
Level 3
Partner

OK, so even though the tape job is not attached to the Full/Incremental job as a duplicate job, the incremental disk job depends on the tape job (standalone) anyway?

 

pkh
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When you run a full backup, regardless of whether to tape or to disk, you start a new recovery chain.  You can do a full backup to tape and then do incremental backups to disk.

When you duplicate a backup set to tape, it does not start a recovery chain.