Disk to disk backup
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 4 comments
I have a customer running BE 12 and their tape drive recently crapped out.
I replaced the tape drive with 5 USB hard drives and created a Removeable Backup-To-Disk Folder on each. I created a Device Pool containing each of the disks called Offsite Disks and targeted the job to that Device Pool.
When the job launches it waits for Disk1... forever. If I manually acknowledge the alert (kind of defeats the whole "scheduled job" thing) then it looks to Disk2, then Disk3, etc.
How can I get it to timeout and move on to the next disk in the pool until it hits the the one plugged in?
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RE: Disk to disk backup
When you swap the hard drives, unpause the one you are attaching, and make sure all the rest are paused.
Someone posted a CMD file using BEMCMD to pause, then unpause all his B2D devices using BEMCMD a while ago, but I can't find it with the new search
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RE: Disk to disk backup
Might use Cascade drive, here is the explanation of this:
Regards !!
xaBo
Perhaps look at replacing BE
Perhaps look at replacing BE with BESR in the future... It's better designed for removable disk, and ultimately cheaper for the customer.
There is an online portal, save yourself the long hold times. Create ticket online, then call in with ticket # in hand :-) http://mysupport.symantec.com "We backup data to restore, we don't backup data just to back it up."
BE out, BESR in?
BESR does not purge the Exchange logs.
The drive will fill up and it's game over.
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