Here is what I want to do.
We have a 12 tape changer in use. I created a media set called 7 day hold. So it will start putting all our backup jobs on a tape until it fills up and then moves on. Right.
Well what I want to do is hold out a weekly tape. So I have a weekly master and 3 other jobs that run on Friday night. I would like to specify that all those jobs go to a specific slot on the tape changer. As well as not allow any other jobs to go to that slot. That way, I know every week I have all the masters on one tape, I pull that tape and take offsite into our rotation.
Does that make sense? Now, how in the world do I do that.
Notes:
The jobs I have running on Friday night are seperate jobs that only run on Friday nights. I want them all to go to one tape which can hold up to 800gb.
I want all the nightly jobs to proceed through the slots as normal.
I am using backup exec 12.
That is all I can think of.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Best Answer
What you need to create are partitions within your library, on the device page of Backup Exec. You would right click on your library, and select "Configure Partitions".
Then when you are creating your jobs, you assign the "Device" to be the partition that you created.
This way that job MUST use a tape in that "device", otherwise it will fail.
Media sets aren't used to select a tape, they just control the overwrite protection period and append status.