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boydfish · 05-16-2014

We use tape backup in the school using the grandfather, father and son system; the daily backup is Incremental then we do a full backup at the weekend and it works OK apart from a small niggle. The Incremental tapes are all from the 'Daily Backup' ta...

boydfish · 10-18-2013

Having got to grips somewhat with the new flavour I have a question/need some 'how to' tips. When I am trying to restore from tape I keep getting asked to insert another tape and creat an import job (Obviously the data is on the requested tape) so ho...

boydfish · 08-20-2013

I have just started using BE 2012 and despite it being completely different it has some good features. However one if these seems to be that it removes the Media Description entries when it uses the backup tape; for example we have our Media labelled...

boydfish · 11-07-2011

I have BE 2010 R3 running my regime and the 'Backup' Drive is down to 43Gb of free space. A check shows that there are numerous .bkf files whihc I believe are the catalogues. However many of these are over a month old (or even more). Should these not...

boydfish · 05-05-2011

We run Backup Exec to complete a Full backup every Friday and this has been going quite well. Recently, however some of the tapes have not been completely used and spookily they all seem to be leaving around 50Gb of unused space. I should pooint out ...

boydfish · 05-20-2014

I checked the document and understand how tapes are selected and the system runs properly Mon Tue and Wed. So that would leave one remaining tape which would have the oldest append date so should take priority over the Wednesday one which will have a...

boydfish · 10-23-2013

BE 2012 and I have the latest weekly backup tapes to use for the restore. The problem occurs when these are not the correct tapes or it has to go further back in the regime. That's when I get the 'Import' request so I just wanted to know if I could d...

boydfish · 10-21-2013

We have a HP Tape library MSL 2024 which 24 slots, I currently have 3 x weekly sets and a set of Daily tapes in the cassettes just to do this restore!!! It just seems a bit of overkill for two folders - I am running the job again after it asked for y...

boydfish · 08-27-2013

Thanks, the information is now being kept.

boydfish · 05-10-2011

Some of the tapes are filling to their full native capacity but others are not, I may check to see which ones are affected and run an erase on them to see if this sorts it out.

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Backup Exec not filling tapes completely

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BE 2012 and I have the latest

We have a HP Tape library MSL

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