System Enabler 701 Posted August 8, 2011 Report Share Posted August 8, 2011 Hello everyone, I think, I'm missing some understanding about working with Recycling Backups. May someone please give me the needed hint? We are using two RDX-cartridges, changing them once a week. When each cartridge comes back into play, it should get a fresh volume of data. Therefore, a skript with "Recycling Backup"-option is started at suitable time. The following backups for the actual week are normal backups (incremental). The problem: After changing the cartridge, the backup-script starts at given time, logs and mails some thing like "8/6/2011 12:33:36 AM: Recycle backup: The Media Set was reset" and a few minutes after that, when Retrospect has finished collecting current information about data to be saved, another mail indicates "Script Backup Server: waiting for media" How may I tell Retrospect to use the cartridge whose content/catalog it just reset? Which option have I missed to activate for the Media Set? Any suggestions? (My workaround so far: Stopping the stucked scripts, restart Retrospect engine, initiating the recycling backup manual) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f30e6e60-a263-4d69-8f60-c92703669308 Posted August 8, 2011 Report Share Posted August 8, 2011 How may I tell Retrospect to use the cartridge whose content/catalog it just reset? The Recycle script option only effects the Catalog file, it does _not_ touch the Member(s) of the Media Set. The program is quite careful with your valuable data; if you want to erase a Member of a Media Set you need to explicitly do so. For tapes that would be in the Storage Devices window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
System Enabler 701 Posted August 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2011 The Recycle script option only effects the Catalog file, it does _not_ touch the Member(s) of the Media Set. The program is quite careful with your valuable data; if you want to erase a Member of a Media Set you need to explicitly do so. For tapes that would be in the Storage Devices window. I see, that makes things a lot clearer to me. Thank you so far, CallMeDave. Is erasing a Media Set member scriptable or have we to erase it manually after inserting the cartridge? What about the "cleaning"-option (I think the english version uses "grooming") of a Media Set? When we determine a static number of backups being hold on the cartridge - is there still any need for using the recycling-option? I suggest, the catalog-file would be updated, when an older backup is erased, wouldn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 8, 2011 Report Share Posted August 8, 2011 Grooming is only valable for disk media sets. For tape media sets it's erasing all or nothing (recycle or not). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
System Enabler 701 Posted August 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2011 Grooming is only valable for disk media sets. For tape media sets it's erasing all or nothing (recycle or not). As I mentioned in my original post, we are using a RDX-Drive and its RDX-cartridges are containing 2,5"-SATA HDDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 9, 2011 Report Share Posted August 9, 2011 As I mentioned in my original post, we are using a RDX-Drive and its RDX-cartridges are containing 2,5"-SATA HDDs. Sorry. I didn't know that and assumed you were talking about tape cartridges. That makes your original problem even harder to understand. When I recycle a disk media set in Retrospect 7.6 for Windows, the data is erased from the disk. I don't know how to help you with your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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