New media backups and tape binding

[terrettaz]

I am running Retrospect 6.5 multiserver on a Windows 2000 server, and I have defined a new media backup with a backup set bound to a specific tape drive.

My problem is that each time a new backup set is created by the new media backup (i.e. Backup set[001], Backup set[002]...), the binding to the specific tape drive is lost, and the backup is performed on any tape drive available.

 

Is it a limitration of the program or is there any way to force new media backup sets to bind to a specific drive?

 

Jack T.

[natew]

Hi

 

Retrospect "should" take a tape as long as it is named exactly right. That doesn't always work though. Maybe there is a better way to get this to work. Can you explain why you need to bind new media sets to a particular drive?

 

Thanks

Nate

[terrettaz]

We have 2 different tape units (with tape libraries of different capacity) and one tape drive is allocated to our file server backup, and the other to our email server backup.

 

Jack T

 

 

[natew]

Hi

 

One more question: Why new media? Is all of this data going off site permanently?

 

Thanks

 

Nate

[terrettaz]

Yes, data are going off-site.

 

But independently of the reason why we are performing these backups and where we store them, Restrospect give to users the possibility to perform new media backups, and give also to users the possibility to bind backup sets to a given tape/autoloader unit.

 

I was just wondering why the binding was not working with new media baclups... It is not very rationale to have a new media backup job splitted randomly between a few DLT and DDS tapes.

 

Jack

[natew]

Hi

 

sorry for the slow Response - I just verified that media binding will not work with new media backup sets. I will pass it on as a feature request.

 

Thanks

Nate