20vtguy <> wrote:
> I am setting up NTBackup on SBS 2003 with a DAT72 tape drive.
Oh my - DAT72? In 2009? Really? I wouldn't. I'd get removable hard drives.
> We are
> simply going to use 5 tapes that we will rotate daily and do full
> backups to each night rather then diffs or incrementals. So we will
> have a Monday tape, a Tuesday, etc, all as full backups. I set up
> individual backup jobs for each day and scheduled them. I wanted to
> test the jobs so I took the new Monday tape and manually activated the
> Monday backup via the Task Scheduler. It started and ran fine. I then
> tried to run it again and it failed telling me it was the incorrect
> media. I tried the same scenario with the Tuesday tape and the same
> thing happened. Now in my backup jobs I specifically told it replace
> the existing backup. Why will it not run the same backup job again on
> the same tape? There has to be some sort of command line switch I can
> add to the scheduled backup properties to allow for this ability. What
> I am missing?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Adam
You know, in SBS you've got SBSBackup which will handle all of this pretty
easily for you. It will do a full backup nightly, including everything you
need to restore your server. It will use whatever media is in there.
If you're going to use NTBackup, set up a batch file top run the job so you
can do other stuff like eject the tape, alert you via email (use BLAT), etc.
and also have it use the /um switch to use any tape that's in there. You can
label them whatever you like but the job won't care.
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