Recycle backup with multi-volume backup set

[andylowry]

This just isn't making sense to me. I've got two sets of DVD-RAM disks, which I'm using for "Backup Set A" and "Backup Set B." The way I want this to work is:

- I do a full normal backup to Set A, and leave the last disk in my drive

- I have normal backups scheduled for 2am each day, to get all changes that day written

to Set A.

- Eventually, I decide to move on to Set B (I don't want to schedule this cuz I want to be

around for it, to swap disks etc.)

- So I change my script to use Backup Set B instead of A, then do a normal backup to

new set of disks.

- Again I leave the last disk in the drive, and it's used for nightly incrementals

 

All of this worked just fine. But now I want to switch back to A again. So:

- I update my script to go to set A again

- I perform a "Recycle backup" and my first disk from set A is reused as I expected.

- When it asks for another disk, I put in my second disk from set A, but it doesn't want to

use it because it claims it's in use for another backup set.

- So I reformat the disk, and it goes ahead and uses it, but it names it with a number higher

than my previous highest disk number, rather than #2 as I would expect.

 

Why is a recycle backup not dropping all media previously in use for the backup set rather than just the first disk? Must I manually drop the backup set in order to cycle back and use it

again? Am I just going about this all wrong?

 

Thanks for any assistance.

 

-andy

[natew]

Hi

 

Make sure you have the automatically reuse pre-named media preference enabled.

 

Thanks

Nate