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question about media and retention

Graeme_Welsh
Level 5
in NBU 6, default options say that retention levels cant be mxed on media, fair enough
however, if for instance u have daily backups mon-thu, backing up 100GB every day, and 200GB capacity on your media,
u back up 100GB on monday
u back up 100GB on teusday
would netbackup append the 100GB from teusdays backup onto the same media that was used for Mondays backup? ie. does it append to media?
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Deepak_Bhalwank
Level 5
I guess the data will get appended since the same policies will be taking the 2nd backup.
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Deepak Bhalwankar

Julien_Mari
Level 4
Yes it will append to media. Your daily backup from Monday and Tuesday have the same retention, so if the tape is still in the library, the tape will be used again.

The tape will go back to the scratch pool when all the images on it will be expired.

Stumpr2
Level 6
If this is not desired then you could create th evolume pools Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
You could then create a schedule for Mondays that will override the policy pool and use the volume pool Monday.
You could then create a schedule for Tuesdays that will override the policy pool and use the volume pool Tuesday. etc...

That way you will use a different tape each day