Netbackup Tape writing behaviour
Hello All, I have a question about tape retention. The question may be stupid and /i think i know the answer, but I am not sure. In a situation where netbackup is writing a frontend(client to tape) or SLP driven deduplication backup (disk to tape).. and for some reason the backup fails. What happens to the data that has already been written on the tape? Is it retained as per the policy schedule retention that is defined or is it discarded? Also what happens to such a tape where the backup that was writing to it failed before it could complete? Is there a way of identifying such tapes? Maybe erasing them and putting them i nthe scratch pool? Any help is fully appreciated. Kind Regards, JayBackup to tape report
I'm trying to generate an OpsCenter report which shows how much (GB/TB) data is backed up to tape. I've tried using a tabular report using the "Media Volume Group Name", with columns for "Media Server" and "Job Size". This report doesn't seem to show adequate numbers. Is there a better report or SQL query to gather this type of information ?
BE15 Not using all the Tapes to back up
Hi, We have two LTO6 tape drives (4 tapes in total 6-1 to 6-4). We run a full backup to disk, then a dup to tape. On the days when i do a full backup, I inventory the tapes then erase them so they are empty. I have set up the jobs to use one storage pool and the LTO6 drives to use as the backup needs to (not allocated to a drive as such). Came in this morning and 6-1 tape was out of the drive and BE requesting insert new tape. The 6-1 tape was full but the drive 6-2 had2.01TB (out of 2.27TB), but 6-3 and 6-4 had hardly been touched? Whey would BE not use the other available tapes? Have made sure the drives are available in device manager etc. Thanks in advance.
Backup Exec 15 to AWS Tapes
Hey all, I've setup backup exec to backup our 2 weekly jobs to AWS tapes. It's been working fine the last few weeks. Each backup going to individual tapes. This past weekend, both jobs went to the same tape. I would like to set it so that it uses individual tapes so if i need to recover in the future, I dont have to pull down the entire weeks data and save on download costs. Can you please explain how i can set it up? Thanks
