Hello,
I am going to set up Backup Exec to work with IBM TS3200 Tape Library(single drive) and need some advices and best
practices.
We have already setup backup to disk using Backup Exec and it works well. Now we want to make additional jobs an...
Few days ago i installed BE 2010 R2 for the first time. I am trying to set it up in existing envoirenment but need some
assistence and suggestions on this topic.
There are folowing devices in my environment: one file server, small NAS device,t...
1. I setup Weekly backup to tape. Used duplicate backup sets folowing job to duplicate all full backups.
Now i have problem to setup backup to monthly tape that I want to keep offsite.As i mentioned above, I want to copy content of last weekly tape...
I am not going to duplicate all these full backups as one job. I plan to configure to /schedule 11 separate duplicate backup jobs following configured full backup jobs. I will setup OPP 33 days and APP 2 days. I hope that this setup will allow me to ...
Thanks Ken on answer.
Just one more clarification, if I set append period to APP 2 days for example, and my duplicate jobs starts on Saturday night and continue during Sunday, will BE create only one large file on tape that contain all full weekend b...
The size of tape in this case really is not problem because all 11 backup files together are not bigger then 500 GB, so one LTO4 tape is enough for all these backups.
My main problem is to find a way to duplicate these 11 backup files(two from FullDa...
Thanks Craig for reply
I understand that tape becomes overwritable whenever OPP expire.
In this case,size of tape is not problem because we use LTO4 tapes. We plan to overwrite them on monthly basis. What is important for me to know now is whether is...