Thanks for
the help on this problem. Being
able to name a set of blank tapes so that another backup set cannot write over
that set of tapes would be a nice feature in a future release of Retrospect. Until then, I will take the advice of
the person that suggested creating only one script and manually changing the “Destination”
when I change the magazine. At
least this way I will have magazines that I know contain only members of the
same backup set.
This is
important because I always keep a magazine offsite and I want to be sure that I
have everything I need to restore in case of disaster.
David
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Subject: Re: How to keep Backup
sets/tapes specific to a magazine?
I believe if you have a storage set
named "Bob" and you erase and name all your tapes in a magazine,
"1-Bob"..."8-Bob, etc. (assuming an 8 tape mag) ANY other backup
set assigned to that script will be able to use those empty named tapes. Only
after they have data on them does retrospect really assign them to the Bob
backup set.
Now this is under 4.2. If you
name an empty tape, it really means nothing until the backup set actually
writes to it. Same under 4.3? I don't know.
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I thought if you named a tape that Retrospect would NOT use it. ???
Is that not true?
When Retrospect is waiting for a tape, the message on the screen says waiting
for a blank tape named <script name> or empty. (or something similar)
I didn't think a script would grab it if the tape was named.
Tim
