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Backup Exec 2012 Beginner

I am a novice to Backup Exec (2012) and have agreed to set up a simple single server backup on a windows 2008 R2 file server. The file server is not running any applications and is used for data storage only.
My question is to do with the strategy to use in conjunction with removable disks, Dell supplied RD1000 with 3 x 500 GB plug-in disks.
I wish to rotate the 3 disks on a weekly basis having one kept off site at all times, one on-line and the other in the company safe.
I am intending to use 3 backup jobs, one for each disk and schedule each job to run on a weekly basis. that is to say, job1 on week 1, job 2 on week 2, job 3 on week 3, job 1 on week 4 and so on.
Each job will start with a full backup on Monday which overwrites the existing full backup and any incremental backups on the disk. For the rest of the week, a daily incremental backup will be scheduled each day (Tuesday .. Sunday)
Can Backup Exec be configured so as to overwrite the existing full backup and incremental backups on the Monday ? Must the 3 disks be part of a media set ?

I realise that this is not a conventional approach but the proprietor will not purchase any more that 3 disks.
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Thanks for you comments, I will be working on this tomorrow and will provide some feedback then.
I am using a Dell RD1000 removable disk drive with 3 plug-in disks.
Backup Exec recognises the device as a single disk cartridge device and I don't seem to need or be able to configure individual disk cartridges.
I have created a media set for the backup job so that I can configure the overwrite protection time and append time although when I look at the online Disk cartridge media properties (Details), the media label for the cartridge in the drive is referred to as FLDR000002 with overwrite protection as "Infinite - Do not overwrite" despite the fact that I have made two backups on the disk. There seems to be nowhere that individual cartridges can be configured or added to a media set except by specifying a media set in a backup job which has been configured for a particular overwrite period and it is not clear if this is working or not. both backups ran ok but looking at the files in the disk cartridge, there is only one bkf file which would suggest that the first backup has been overwritten.
I only have one removable disk drive and cannot add individual disk cartridges to a device pool as it would appear that there is only one device; that being the removable disk drive and not the individual disk cartridges.