I'm wondering if I have to continually relabel my media as "scratch media". All my overwrite protection levels are set to none, I have deselected the "prompt before overwrite" yet I still get the alert, "please insert overwritable media". The problem is I am not around to respond to the alerts and the job hangs until I do respond to the alert messages. When I drag my media over to "scratch media" under the media tab then it works but it takes it out of the scratch media once it is used. then the problem starts all over again. Any suggestions?
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You must create a media set that the particular backup will draw scratch tapes into
with with the retension properties, append and overwrite, set so that tapes will be
available to write to when the next backup using that media set is started. In the job properties you must decide if you want to append a series of backups to one tape or ask for an overwrite tape for each job. Usually differential backups run in one night are set to append to the same media pool. Right click/edit or job definition/properties on the recuring backup job and the overwrite settings are at the top of the General tab.
New media sets are defined in the media tab by right clicking on User Media Sets
and creating a new media set name. Then set the append overwrite time limits with
the propeties of the media set. If you want to reuse a tape you must have the tapes
overwrite time limit set (or be forced to manually move it to scratch). For instance if you want to keep a tape from being wiped out for two weeks set the overwrite time to two weeks. But then you must have enough overwitable tapes in the media set to service all you othe backup jobs of the same type. By type I mean Normal (full) or differential(daily) etc. that is set for that particular job at the bottom of the job properties/General tab.
Media sets and their tape expiration times are how you set things up so that you
do not keep having to move tapes to scratch. The scratch media set should be used as the source of tapes to add more tapes to a media set. When the overwrite time for a tape within a media set expires the media label will turn blue and it will be available
for overwrite by jobs pulling from that media set. Jobs wanting to append will
look for an appendable in that media set before going out looking for overwritabale tapes instead. After a tape overwrite time period expires it will stay in that media set unless you move it , even if the job had to pull it from scratch to start out creaating that series of backups.
By the way continuation tapes will always want overwritable tapes, either
those contained in the media set for that job or from the scratch media set.
with with the retension properties, append and overwrite, set so that tapes will be
available to write to when the next backup using that media set is started. In the job properties you must decide if you want to append a series of backups to one tape or ask for an overwrite tape for each job. Usually differential backups run in one night are set to append to the same media pool. Right click/edit or job definition/properties on the recuring backup job and the overwrite settings are at the top of the General tab.
New media sets are defined in the media tab by right clicking on User Media Sets
and creating a new media set name. Then set the append overwrite time limits with
the propeties of the media set. If you want to reuse a tape you must have the tapes
overwrite time limit set (or be forced to manually move it to scratch). For instance if you want to keep a tape from being wiped out for two weeks set the overwrite time to two weeks. But then you must have enough overwitable tapes in the media set to service all you othe backup jobs of the same type. By type I mean Normal (full) or differential(daily) etc. that is set for that particular job at the bottom of the job properties/General tab.
Media sets and their tape expiration times are how you set things up so that you
do not keep having to move tapes to scratch. The scratch media set should be used as the source of tapes to add more tapes to a media set. When the overwrite time for a tape within a media set expires the media label will turn blue and it will be available
for overwrite by jobs pulling from that media set. Jobs wanting to append will
look for an appendable in that media set before going out looking for overwritabale tapes instead. After a tape overwrite time period expires it will stay in that media set unless you move it , even if the job had to pull it from scratch to start out creaating that series of backups.
By the way continuation tapes will always want overwritable tapes, either
those contained in the media set for that job or from the scratch media set.
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