ntbackup configuration

[djc]

I currently have separate jobs scheduled for each day of the week that go to
a specific tape. Job won't run unless the right tape is in. This is fine,
this is what I wanted. But it made me wonder how I would, If I wanted to,
schedule just one backup job that ran everynight and used whatever tape was
in the drive. When the tape is new, blank, already allocated, already
allocated and full of data, anything, just overwrite the tape with the
scheduled job no matter what. How would I do that with ntbackup? I just ran
a quick test with the tape drive selected and 'new' as media with no luck,
log said something like can't find media... the job was set to 'overwrite'
though. I'm assuming that since the tape was already allocated to ntbackup
and had data on it that ntbackup was not considering it 'new'... not sure.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I currently have separate jobs scheduled for each day of the week
that go to a specific tape. Job won't run unless the right tape is
in. This is fine, this is what I wanted. But it made me wonder how I
would, If I wanted to, schedule just one backup job that ran
everynight and used whatever tape was in the drive. When the tape is
new, blank, already allocated, already allocated and full of data,
anything, just overwrite the tape with the scheduled job no matter
what. How would I do that with ntbackup? I just ran a quick test with
the tape drive selected and 'new' as media with no luck, log said
something like can't find media... the job was set to 'overwrite'
though. I'm assuming that since the tape was already allocated to
ntbackup and had data on it that ntbackup was not considering it
'new'... not sure.

You'd use the /um switch -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239892/

 

[djc]

ah... Thank you very much!

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"