07-03-2011 08:04 AM
i couldn't really find an answer, so i'm posting a new thread. this shouldn't be that difficult, so i don't know what i'm missing.
i had this working until i upgraded to backup exec 2010, now i can't get it to work.
i have 2 separate backup to disk folders, differential to disk and full to disk, on a mirrored pair of 2tb drives . i have 2 separate jobs that run, the full on sunday and the differential the other 6 days.
i want to use all of the disk space up before i start overwriting any files, but right now the jobs are overwritten every time they run.
what am i missing and what do i have set incorrectly.
my current settings:
job properties is set to append to media, overwrite if no appendable media is available
then media set properties settings are: overwrite protection is set to 0 hours, infinite - allow append
tools/options media management
overwrite protection is set to none
overwrite options is overwrite scratch media before overwriting recyclable media contained in the targeted media
thanks
Gary
07-03-2011 07:10 PM
07-03-2011 08:04 PM
pkh:
like i mentioned, it was working in a previous version. it would just start overwriting the oldest bkf files when needed. my full backups are around 150gb. i just don't know how it was set up, because i couldn't move my jobs from the old version.
07-03-2011 08:18 PM
I don't know how you managed to do it, but what I have described earlier is the expected behaviour.
08-02-2011 08:43 AM
I think you want "Automatically optimize storage" option. It's in Manage Backup Destination\Task\Settings. It will delete the old recovery points as the drive starts to get full.
08-02-2011 09:58 AM
job properties is set to append to media, overwrite if no appendable media is available
then media set properties settings are: overwrite protection is set to 0 hours, infinite - allow append
tools/options media management
overwrite protection is set to none
overwrite options is overwrite scratch media before overwriting recyclable media contained in the targeted media
As pkh said, from Tools\Options\Media Management verify that the Global Overwrite Protection is set to PARTIAL or FULL
From Tools\Options\Media Management verify that the option to "use scratch media before overwriteable media in the target media set" is selected
Set all your disk jobs to Overwrite, not Append
Set the Media Set Overwrite to whatever you need for your business needs (as long as that plus one day will fit on your B2D folder)
And don't set the BKF file size up too far. With Overwrite only, any unused space in the last BKF of a job is just wasted
08-02-2011 06:55 PM
hi ken:
i've set this up like you have both mentioned and i will post back the results in a few days.
thanks
08-02-2011 06:58 PM
vg:
i have backup exec 2010 r3 and i could not find this setting anywhere.
Gary
08-03-2011 12:30 AM
Just for reference GRT (IMG folder) backups and when they were reclaimed did work differently in older versions of Backup Exec. As we had a lot of feedback from customers that had job failures based on disk space issues against GRT locations we had to change it.
In then old version it ran until you either filled the disk or hit the disk space reserve and then tried to reclaim an overwriteable IMG folder except the logic for trying using a full device vs the timeout for reclaiming was a bit flawed and customers ended up with failed jobs.
We changed it to reclaiming/erasing one overwritable IMG folder at the start of every GRT set (which means if a given job backs up two Exchange Storage Groups as each of these is a GRT set it will reclaim 2 IMG folders - one at the start of the first storage group and one at the start of the second) This change means that the reclaim occurs well before the drive actually runs out of space thus avoiding the device paused / full scenario.
You cannot change the behaviour back. Also standard BKF files remain as they always did - i.e. controlled by the Overwrite protection and therefore also not waiting till the disk fills up before removal.