Append Time In Media Set

[ElijahBaley]

Hello

Can someone help with the following:

After a trouble free 12 months or so Backup Exec 8.5 has decided that 2 tapes in my media set have changed their append period from 'Infinite' to 'None'.

My first question is, how can I change their state back to Infinite (moving them to different media sets and then back again does not change anything)

Second, why has this happened? - the properties for the media set have not changed, no job options have been changed - how can professional software behave like this..

Thanks for any help,

 

[SQLBill]

I see this all the time...it means the tape is full. What is the OVERWRITE set to? A tape can only append for so long and then it's full. So, if you set it to infinite append time, data will be appended until the tape is full. Then it will overwrite the tape and begin appending again UNLESS overwrite is not allowed. Then it can't append any more and lets you know by changing append time to NONE.

-SQLBill

 

[ElijahBaley]

Thanks SQLBill

The job is 'Append to media, overwrite if no appendable media available' and I have no overwrite protection set on the media set.

I can understand this if the job exceeded the capacity of the tape (we are close) then it would changed to no append -but these tapes have failed to mount after just a few MBs of backup?

Hmmn anyway, how can I reset them to Infinite append (and overwrite)

Much Appreciated,

 

[SQLBill]

Go to the MEDIA tab and right click on the media set. Then choose Properties. You can change the settings there.

You say you are close, how close? Do you have the job set to Verify or any other checking? That uses up some of the tape space. For example: I have verify set for one of my jobs. I'm backing up a file that has 185 GB of data. The BE backup file shows 193 GB backed up.

-SQLBill

 

[SQLBill]

OOPS, made a mistake in my example. The file is 175 GB and the BE backup file size is 193 GB.

-SQLBill

 

[ElijahBaley]

I'll take a look at those issues, thanks for your help,

 

[arcservetherapy]

Hi, I too am having this same problem. How can the tape be full if an Erase has just been run on it?

Also - the Media Group is set to have Infinite Append (if no appendable media then set to overwrite)