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pete_monger · 09-07-2011

I have a daily backup job that writes to B2D files, and B2D overwrite protection is set to 3 days. What is happening is: For the first 3 days it creates new B2D files as requiredHowever, on day 4 it overwrites day 1, even though there is loads of spa...

pete_monger · 08-04-2011

I'm running BE 11d to backup the machine it is installed on, writing to a local removable USB Drive. It uses the Microsoft SQL Agent to backup the local SQL Server databases and is on a network with similarly configured machines. Does anyone know whe...

pete_monger · 07-15-2009

Hallo, I have a machine, with SQL Server 2005 (and maybe SQL Express) databases and I run two backup jobs. One is a System backup of C: and System State, the other is a Database Backup of the databases. I have Microsoft SQL Agent installed and lice...

pete_monger · 03-12-2009

Hallo, Is it possible to have 7 USB hard drives (with the same drive letter) which I can rotate every morning, with the backup completing overnight? What I want is to not have to log on to the machine, just pull out yesterdays drive and put in today...

pete_monger · 09-15-2011

I have "use scratch media before overwriteable media in the target media set" selected, but that does not create new bkf files for me. Maybe the 'reserve is met' as you suggest, but where is this set?

pete_monger · 09-15-2011

Creating the extra B2D files worked! After an Inventory, all the new B2D files appeared as scratch media in the B2D Folder. BE used these in preference to my existing files even after the overwrite period was passed. Once all the B2D files had been u...

pete_monger · 09-07-2011

Cheers CraigV, I've created a number of empty B2D files on my disk and have inventoried it and they appear as (Blank Media) Scratch Media. With all my other media still within it's overwrite protection period, it's used one of my new ones for the bac...

pete_monger · 08-04-2011

Yeah, that I may have to resort to that, but I'd rather just stop BE from trying to talk to the outside world

pete_monger · 08-04-2011

These links explain how to change port numbers etc, but not how to disable listening on remote ports which is what I was wanting to do, unless I've mssed something... From the service descriptions, BE Agent Browser and BE Remote Agent for Windows Ser...

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Change B2D Overwrite behavior

Stop BE Listening on Remote Ports

What SQL Server files are unnecessary when using Microsoft SQL Agent?

Swapping USB Hard Drives without log on

use scratch media before overwriteable media...

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Just trying this...

Could do

These links explain how to