I have Veritas backup 8.5 running on Windows NT.I have purchased 19 DAT tapes in the hope of running the Grandfather / Son rotation scheme as shown in user guide!! .I used the wizard to set this up and first started on a Wednesday with a normal backup.When I put this tape back in on the Friday as instructed it would’nt append.This also happened on the Wednesday tape.I looked at the properties for this media and it said “overwrite 4 weeks” and “append 6 Days”.That is correct isnt it.It wouldnt append to the media so I had to change the overwrite period to 6 days also.It then worked but surely this defeats the object of automatic backup.Is this a common problem or am I stupid ?If I confuse then here is
An example of my media:
Differential backup :Wednesday 10/07/01 so when I put in the same Wednesday tape on the 17/07/01 it should I believe append that days data onto the tape.6 days have passed so append should happen…I hoped.
But no it will not back up to that tape saying it cant be overwritten which is correct.I have to change the properties to 6 day Overwrite for it to write data to the tape.
Can you offer any advice.Thanx for your help….