Scheduling problem 1

[ngagne]

I have a customer who would like to run backups on two media sets, switching tapes every Monday morning. A full backup would be performed each night.

I created two backup jobs, one for one media set (let's call it "Tape 1") and another for "Tape 2". I want the tape 1 job to run each night, M-F of next week. The following Monday, the customer would change tapes, and have tape 2's job run that week. Wash, rinse, repeat.

I created a screen shot of the resulting schedule, you can see the problem I am running into...

http://216.204.9.203/jeep/schedule.jpg

How do I schedule a backup job to run M-F, and alternate weeks at the same time?

 

[justin2000]

Why do you need 2 media sets for this?

Why don't you label your tapes Week1 and Week2 and alternate between them?

 

[ngagne]

The backup job requires more than one tape. How do I prevent accidentally overwriting?

 

[justin2000]

Setup the media sets to have overwrite protection for the time you do not want to Overwrite it.

So for example, the tape you write to today, you don't want it overwritten for 2 weeks, set the Overwrite protection period for 13 days.

BE also will not overwrite a tape that is used in the same backup job.
For example, you backup runs over 3 tapes, after the second tape, you put tape 1 back it, BE will spit it out and ask for another one.

 

[ngagne]

Thanks Justin - that was the clarification that I was looking for.