scottdog129 Posted May 13, 2003 Report Share Posted May 13, 2003 I have Retrospect V6 Single Server running on NT4 and have a Exabyte VXA tape drive with 107m tapes. I created a backup set for every day of the week and named my tapes acordingly. I am finding out that the first backup did everything. For example: Monday I backed up everything then used the same tape for next Monday and the Monday after that. Now it is telling me that I have no more room on the tape. How do I keep this from happening? Scott Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted May 13, 2003 Report Share Posted May 13, 2003 You can change your script schedule from Normal (incremental) backups to Recycle (full) backups. The tape(s)/backup set(s) will be erased each time and written from scratch. Normal backups append the changed data to the end of the existing data - as a result the tape will eventually fill up, requiring the next tape. It is not possible to selectively delete data from a backup set. Your choices are to - Backup less data - use selectors or subvolumes to limit the amount of data being copied - Use Recycle backups - Add additional tapes (members) as needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottdog129 Posted May 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2003 Thank you. I didnt want to do that because the backup take so long, but I would imagine that since I have Open File Backup it could run during the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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