Append and Overwrite Periods 1

[mot98]

Hi All,

I am running BE 8.6 with a Seagate Python 4 tape autoloader.

I run a mon-thur incremental backup, and full backups on Fridays.

How do I set it up so that it will use the first tape on monday and move to the second tape for tues..etc...

thanks for any tips... mot98

"I'm a doctor...not a magician"

 

[SQLBill]

About the only way to do it is to create a Media Set for each day and a different backup job for each day. For example, you would create a Monday Backup job and schedule it to run every Monday and assign it to the Monday Media Set. Problem with this is making sure you have enough tapes assigned to the media set or making sure you allow overwrite. If a backup starts on one tape and is larger than the space left, it needs to continue onto a second tape or it will fail. So, every job needs to be able to overwrite or you need two tapes in each set.

-SQLBill

 

[Qdog]

In addition to last comments, you will also have to partition your slots, 1 partition per slot. Follow this technote as guide to creating partitions.

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/206843.htm

Later...

 

[SQLBill]

Qdog,

Why partition the slot? I have several media sets and not a single one of my 24 slots is partitioned.

-SQLBill

 

[Qdog]

Sorry SQLBill....
Clarification: Backup Exec is pretty random on which tape it will pull from whatever slot when the slots are not partitioned. Sounds like you know what yer doin w/BE. The ones that can handle the randomness usually do know what they're doing. Some people want their individual backups to use certain tapes every time. Slot partitions are the only way to ensure that BE picks a certain tape for a certain job every time.