Quick Tape Spillover Question
Created: 03 Jul 2012 | 5 comments
When a tape has run out of space in the middle of a job is the only option for it to rollover onto scratch media? Is there an article describing the rollover process in Backup Exec 2010?
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Yes, during a job BE can only append the first tape, if that tape is full a scratch or overwritable tape is required.
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What happens if you have a scratch tape and an overwriable tape available? Will it always rollover onto the scratch media first before the overwritable media? I just want to be sure my overwritable tape that will be used for another job later on at night will not be used as a rollover tape for a job that runs out of space earlier in the job process.
The second and subsequent tapes have to be overwritable tapes. It will not necessarily be a scratch tape. The search criteria is given in this document
How Backup Exec searches for overwritable media
Have a look at this KB - http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
Also read the media management chapter in the admin guide it has a whole section about how overwriteable media are selected.
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