What are steps for backing up?

[JCrou82]

I am new to this networking and data backup scene. We have back Exec 8.6 on a windows 2000 system. The Tape Drive we use is a Dell PV 110T-DLT-VS80 with firmware version 5032 and a drive type of DLT 64K. It was last cleaned on 1/31/03. (information from going to properties on device tab). I have attempted to set up a backup scheme of doing a full backup everyday on select data using a 10-tape rotation. I'm not sure if what I did was correct. I want to know what are the steps to setting up a daily full backup. Up to date we only have about 5 g of data.

I have created a scheduled job. Created a media set (daily backup set) to allow overwrite after 12 days. I then labeled all of my 10 tapes and moved them to the BE's default scratch media. I placed Mondays tape in on monday and it backed up fine moving the tape to the media set (daily backup set) without me doing anything. But when I let it run yesterday, I found the tape ejected with an error stating that the tape is overwrite protected. I checked the logs and it said that the data was backed up, but verification failed. So I just did a full erase on that tape and ran a onetime back up on it.

-Does any one know what might have happened?
-Can any one give me or point me to a step by step way of setting up a daily full back up using 10 tapes?

Thanks in advance

 

[SQLBill]

What size is the tape?
How many backups have you done to the tape?

I set up different media sets for each type of backup (FULL, Differential, Transaction). You could set up different media sets for each day and then create different jobs for each day which direct the backup to the proper media set.

-SQLBill

 

[JCrou82]

it's a 40/80 g tape and yesterday was my first backup on that particular tape.

as far as setting up different media sets and jobs for different days, wouldn't that just be harder to manage since every day is a different backup job?