I redid all my backup jobs and worked some really wonderful tech support people. I believe I'm in a good place right now. I'm still ironing out a few wrinkles in my backup policies to meet the new version's requirements I have to grudgingly admit ...
One of life's big mistakes: moving to 2012 when 2010 R3 was working perfectly.
I back up from disk to tape. Every job I had set up on 2010 failed so I had to re-create the jobs and discovered that I couldn't seperate my full monthly backups to write...