Server 5.15 and DAT tape sets

[calljdub]

I have confused myself . . . I'm new here as Administrator and the

 

scripts are not acting as expected . . . . not asking me to insert the

 

proper DAT set/tape.

 

 

 

Since August they have run backup server script named "AVRC Backup Server"

 

that has backed up to a set of tapes named "AVRC BACKUP [001]". Two weeks

 

ago it was up to five DAT tapes when it stopped running. The catalog was

 

reported as corrupted, so I gave the recreaterebuild command. Naturally

 

it is slow as it is re-syncing 70 machines over a five month span. Last

 

week it asked for tape #6, which I gave it.

 

 

 

To cover myself I created a new Backup Server script named "Post 11-06-02

 

AVRC BU" and it is successfully running, and now up to it's third DAT tape

 

entitled "Post 11-6-02 BU".

 

 

 

It is my wish to keep the two scripts/catalogs on separate DAT sets.

 

 

 

During the day I am patiently trying to rebuild the catalog to "AVRC Backup

 

Server", while backing up the network at night with "Post 11-06-02".

 

 

 

Today when I stopped Backup Server, and went to Retrospect

 

Directoryimmediate BUchose "AVRC Backup Server'save and run, and put

 

tape #6 of "AVRC BACKUP [001]" in the DAT drive, it polled and prepared,

 

then began writing to destination "Post 11-6-02 AVRC BU" which is not the

 

catalog I want it to write to. I want it to write to "AVRC Backup

 

Server". In the event I ever need to restore something from AVRC Backup

 

Server, I only want to be asked for AVRC BACKUP [001] tapes 1 - 6.

 

 

 

Question #1: Shouldn't it ask for tape #6 before beginning to write?

 

 

 

Question #2: If I ultimately want to have two identical scripts/catalogs

 

for even/odd days (to protect against media failure) is there some way to

 

insure each BU only writes to it's particular set of tapes?

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

John Wheelock

 

jwheelock@ucsd.edu

 

 

 

 

[AmyJ]

In reply to:

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""Post 11-6-02 AVRC BU" which is not the catalog I want it to write to.

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If you're doing Immediate > Backup operations, you'll need to set the Destination to the set you want to use. If the destination listed is: Post 11-6-02 AVRC BU, that's the set Retropsect will use.

 

 

 

In reply to:

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Question #2: If I ultimately want to have two identical scripts/catalogs

 

for even/odd days (to protect against media failure) is there some way to

 

insure each BU only writes to it's particular set of tapes?

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Use Backup scripts rather then Backup Server scripts to schedule which set to use on which day.