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Problem using External HD and Backup to Disk Folders
1) I formatted the drives to NTFS with the defualt block size
2) I added the path (E:) to the Medial > Backup to Disk Folders
3) Confiured a job with this destionation
4) Created a Media Set for the job Overwrite Protetction period = Infinite don't allow overwrite, Appendaable period = Don't allow append (0 hours).
When I test the job it fails with an error in the device section:
Online append capacity : 0.00 MB
Online overwrite capacity : 0.00 MB
Total append capacity : 0.00 MBTotal overwrite capacity : 17,203,200.00 MB
Why is the overwrite capacity 0.00 MB? My backup is about 60 GB.
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Thanks again, will give a try
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Why have I set the Overwrite Protection Period to Infinite? Because I don't know what I'm doing, Backup Exec is very confusing to me since I have never used it before.
I did create the "Removable Backup-to-disk folder" so that part is correct.
Yes I intend to swap the drives every day. and it's a full backup each day. I suppose since the drives have the capacity, we could save a total of 2 backups on each drive.
So I think the problem lies with the Media Set rules?