Basically we can't run all our Full backups on one night.  The end result is that we have about 5 policies, each one has it's full backup on a different day.  Incrementals are nightly unless a full takes priority.

To this I have about 5 backup sets, each set has 2-3 servers in it.

This works great, except for a few things.

Exports only need to occur on a weekly basis since we aren't required to export the incrementals, BE 12 has no way to accomodate this...  I am trying to use bemcmd.exe and a SQL query to export tapes on the last job of the week, but still fighting some scripting issues which is a whole other topic!!

Other issue is the logs, I end up with SO many policies and logs.

I was thinking of breaking down my selection lists further, so instead of "set 1" which includes 2-3 servers, each server would have it's own selection list....

This would make the logging insane, so many logs... but it would be easy to look at metrics and find thigns in the console without opening the logs.  The other beauty of this is that since we have 2 drives in the media server, we can run 2 jobs in parallel which speeds things up also, especially when you have so many small jobs, nothing will "hog" the drives.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?  does anyone else have an issue with fulls not finishing and needed a lot of policies to break it up?

Any thoughts?