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francisbarr · 09-28-2011

Hi guys just wondering if anyone can give me a hand here. I'm using backup exec 12.5 for a 4 day daily full backup from Monday till Thursday and a weekly full backup on Friday. The backup was running fine until 4 weeks ago when I missed one Friday ...

francisbarr · 02-27-2011

Hi there, My weekly back has been working fine until three days ago now I'm getting a message saying that any "inserted media is full and please insert a scratch or overitable media", all the tapes for the weekly back up is overitable enabled and ap...

francisbarr · 11-02-2010

Hi there, Currently we're running backup exec. 12X. We have a full backup daily and a full backup every Friday, we used to have around 170Gb worth of data that we could backup uncompressed but now we have around 270Gb worth of data being backed up bu...

francisbarr · 10-27-2010

Hi there, Currently I'm using a 4 day full backup(mon-fri) and a weekly full backup on Friday using Ultrium 200/400GB TD2 tapes but now we have more than 200Gb worth of data and the backup won't finish unless I use the next day tape to finish the bac...

francisbarr · 10-26-2010

Hi guys I'm new to tape rotation and need some advice on how to create a tape rotation set. We're using super DLT 400Gb tapes and we need a full backup for each day Monday to Thursday and a weekly backup on Friday on a six weeks rotation for the week...

francisbarr · 11-08-2011

PKH thanks for your help Looks like the only option I have is to upgrade the stand alone drive so I can use LTO3 tapes to fit all my data. Thank you guys for all your help. Regards, Francis

francisbarr · 11-01-2011

Ok thanks guys I appreciate the advice about upgrading the LTO drive. In the mean time any ideas what could be happening to the backup and why it's asking me to swap the two tapes multiple times during the daily backup? Thanks guys Regards, Francis

francisbarr · 10-30-2011

Hi PKH, thanks for your help it's much appreciated. I've tried everything even updating the firmware on the tape drive and still not success the backup still asking to swap the two tapes multiple times during the backup so I went ahead and bought mo...

francisbarr · 10-03-2011

HI Craig, thanks for your help I've checked the compression ratio and it's only 1:1 or 1:3:1 for two days not sure why is doing this I've tried both software and hardware compression combined or individually but the result remains the same. The tap...

francisbarr · 11-02-2010

That worked for me thank you heaps Hywel. Much appreciated, Regards, Francis Create a media set called Create a media set called daily backup. Give it an Overwrite Protection Period of 6 days, and an Append period of 12 hours. Create a media set c...

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Backup exec 12.5 having to swap tapes many times during backup

Backup exec 12.5 having to swap tapes many times during backup

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