I'm currently backing up about 200Gb of data onto disk from serveral servers
using backup exec.  I keep 2 days worth of disk based backed up data on the
server.  The backup to disk runs overnight (from about 7pm to 8am), and I
plan to stream the backup out to tape during the next day.

The problem is that I only want to stream out the most recently backup data
to tape, otherwise there is too much (2days worth) to fit on a single tape.

Is there any way to just stream out the most recent backup to tape (1days
worth).  I'm probably missing something simple here :-)

Many thanks,
Box

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Backup Exec 10d has synthetic full capability that will use your on disk
data to create a synthetic full image. This way only a current image of the
machine will be streamed to tape. This should prevent you exceeding your
capacity as long as a full image will fit on the tape.

If your trying to put multiple inc or diffs on the media, I'm not that
knowledgable on the limitations imposed during the copy set backups.

Hope this helps,
Nick

"Boxington Headmaker" <the_boxhead@delete_mehotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm currently backing up about 200Gb of data onto disk from serveral
> servers
> using backup exec.  I keep 2 days worth of disk based backed up data on
> the
> server.  The backup to disk runs overnight (from about 7pm to 8am), and I
> plan to stream the backup out to tape during the next day.
>
> The problem is that I only want to stream out the most recently backup
> data
> to tape, otherwise there is too much (2days worth) to fit on a single
> tape.
>
> Is there any way to just stream out the most recent backup to tape (1days
> worth).  I'm probably missing something simple here :-)
>
> Many thanks,
> Box
>
>

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"DevDude" <icq69@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Backup Exec 10d has synthetic full capability that will use your on disk
> data to create a synthetic full image. This way only a current image of
> the machine will be streamed to tape. This should prevent you exceeding
> your capacity as long as a full image will fit on the tape.
>
> If your trying to put multiple inc or diffs on the media, I'm not that
> knowledgable on the limitations imposed during the copy set backups.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Nick

Cheers for the reply, but I'm backing up files, SQL databases and and
Exchange server, all on different machines.  I beleive that the synt. backup
will only do files?

Ta,
Box

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"DevDude" <icq69@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Backup Exec 10d has synthetic full capability that will use your on disk
> data to create a synthetic full image. This way only a current image of
> the machine will be streamed to tape. This should prevent you exceeding
> your capacity as long as a full image will fit on the tape.
>
> If your trying to put multiple inc or diffs on the media, I'm not that
> knowledgable on the limitations imposed during the copy set backups.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Nick

As a follow-up to this message, I have found that there is an option in
BackupExec 10 called 'Duplicate' (search in the help) that will allow me to
re-backup the files I've just backed up to disk, to tape, without having to
backup the original files again.

Hope it helps someone.
Box

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