Simple Tape rotation question
I just took over the Backup Exec environment and had a simple question about tapes and rotating them through the system. We do a monthly backup and those tapes are kept for 2 years per our retention rules. So I have older tapes that are cycling out of the retention period that I would like to reuse. For the backups we use a Monthly backup media set. What would be the best operation for reusing these tapes in the monthly backup media set?
What is the retention period for Annual backup
Dear Support, What is the retention period I need to set for my Yearly backup to Tape. (Media set propeties please see the screenshot attached). Retention perid/ overwrite protection period / Append period. Please note this a one time backup only. Backup to Tape drive (LTO6) The purpose of this backup is to keep every year a copy of that year's backup in a seperate LTO Tape. (This is not going to overwrite). This is only for future use in case management needed any files from previous years. I need a proper retention policy to keep for these kind of backups. Thank you.