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Not appendable (Media Full)

I'm having a problem with backups, last night backup stopped at 10 of 35 gig and ejected the tape and prompted for overwriteable media.

I am using veritas backup exec for sbs with a dat unit 72 gig tapes. When I look at the media sets Monday- Friday are overwriteable which I presumes means they are in fact overwriteable but for some reason it also says Not appendable (Media Full), could this be the reason my backups are failing?

Each nights backup is set to fully overwrite the tape so no incremental or differential configured

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David_Fong

No defect of this nature in Backup Exec, you've probably got it set to "Append to media, never overwrite", you need to change this to "Append to media, overwrite if no appendable media is available" under the job properties.

Although "basics of advanced" is an oxymoron and there are two "figure 2"s in the following document it does explain the various settings that have to be configured if you are using a library.

Scratchyboy, I would ask you to refer people to it instead of saying BE is faulty, it always solves this type of problem once the user realises how BE choses what media to use.

http://support.veritas.com/docs/192265

Sid_F

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I'm inclined to think it is a problem with that rev of bexec as all my other sites have the same setup and they run fine the only difference being the rev. The media is in scratch media and the job is set to overwrite media.

I'm going to remove the current rev (5484) and install rev (5520) for version 10 as this previously resolved a problem I had with backup exec.
I have to admit paying for a product like veritas and then be thrown into a knowledge base for support is a rip off.

David_Fong

Recieving the rev 5484 CD from sales and being told it's not supported when you phone up for support is a rip off :(

scrathcyboy

"Scratchyboy, I would ask you to refer people to it instead of saying BE is faulty, it always solves this type of problem once the user realises how BE choses what media to use."

Sorry, there is a long history of exactly this problem with BUExec, since version 5, but more intensely 7 to 9. Many users have experienced flaw, you are just lucky you havent. Check this and other sites going back 4 years, you will get a good education on problem. Yes and now you are learning about BUExecs bad support too?