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Media set configuration and association

Created: 15 Feb 2012 | 2 comments
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Hi,

I have a tape Drive connected to my NAS server,the tape will hold backups for remote agent for windows servers,so I will backup a remote NAS server over WAN,I decided to use Full backups in a monthly biase,and incremental backups every week.

Full size Backups are 500 GB

Incremental are very small in size because they are not changed frequently.

Tape is LTO-4 with 800 GB.

I want to create a media set for this backup job !!!  I should chose perfectly the overwrite protection period and append period , so that the Tape can hold the full backup and 4 incremental backups for one month,is it possible ?

Thanks

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Striker 303's picture
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yes that makes sense,

check this best article to learn media mangment: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH5459

Ken Putnam's picture
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2012
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RE: Media set configuration and association

Striker's suggestion will give you a good overview of media management, and I highly suggest that you read through it

To your specific question:

Define your media set with OPP of 6 days just in case the job ends after midnight and an APP of 29 days - to acount for months with five Fridays  (assuming that you run your jobs every Friday)

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