I have a media set for our Full Backups with overwrite protection set for 5 days.
When I allocate media to this media set the the overwrite protection period begins from that point. According to the admin guide, and previous versions if I remember correctly, the overwrite protection period should only be set after the first write to the tape.
I realize I can put in the scratch media set, which I will do but this seems strange to me. These are older tapes from previous jobs, but since I had to create a new DB after the 11d upgrade there is no info other then the media label after an inventory job. After the inventory it places the media in to the "backup exec and windows NT media" set with overwrite protection of infinite.
The reason I would prefer to place it in the "Full" media set is due to the fact that I have a blank tape in the drive, just in case, and I would prefer the job to write to the older media first.
I have it set to "full+overwrite recyclable media first." Since there will be no recyclable media in the targeted media set it will write to scratch media. If both the blank tape, and older tape are considered "scratch media" which tape will be written to?
Thanks