Hi all,
I am looking for some guidance/help.
We recently installed a Library to replace a Tape drive. Now our jobs takes two tapes instead of one.
Scenario:
HP Library 2024 - Backup Exec 2012 R2 up-to-date - Windows Server 2008 R2.
5 jobs (one per server) scheduled to be run one after another with no overlap (5 min gap between jobs aprox).
Schedule is set to run every day of the week.
First job set to "Overwrite media" and the other four jobs set to "Append to media, overwrite".
Here's what I think BE does:
- First job starts, it takes the oldest tape ("Allocated Date"), move it to the drive, overwrites it, run the job and then moves it back to the slot. "Allocated Date" is updated because tape was overwritten.
- Second job starts, instead of taking the previous tape it takes the oldest tape ("Allocated Date"), move it to the drive, append the data and moves it back to the slot. "Allocated Date" is not updated.
- Third job start, takes the previos tape (as its "Allocated Date" has not changed), move it to the drive, append the data and moves it back to the slot.
- Fourth and Fifth jobs do the same.
How can we force BE to take only one tape (the first one that was overwritten)?
Thank you in advance.