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Sohail_SysAdmin's avatar
20 days ago

Weekly backup job uses 2 Tape Cartridges instead of 1.

Hi,

I am using Veritas Backup Exec 24 with HP Tape Library MSL-2024 with 2 drives/24 slots.

I have created Weekly Full backup job from 5 different windows servers  and backup was successful, but weekly backup job used 2 X10 TB tape cartridges from "Scratch Media".

Weekly backup size is 4TB only.

Question: Is there a way to force Weekly job to use ONLY 1 (10TB) Tape cartridge?

Thanks, Sohail

  • No because your data need to go onto 2 tapes.

  • thanks for response, but my Weekly backup size is 4TB only. why its writing in 2 tapes. each tape capacity is 10 TB. both tapes are used less than half of its capacity.

    • pkh's avatar
      pkh
      Moderator

      It could be that your job is appending to the first tape and the first tape has only a small amount of space left.

      Otherwise, it could be that your compression and encryption are set wrongly such that the output is bigger than the input.