I'm new to Veeam (we just started moving our jobs over from BE last week) and am now working on getting our weekly backups archived to tape. I'm wondering how B&R decides which restore points it should write off to tape. Here's how I have it set up:
I created a custom Media Pool called Weekly
The Tape Job is set up as follows:
Name: Exchange to Tape Weekly
Backup Files: Exchange job is selected (not the repository)
Full Backup: Weekly media set is selected
Incremental Backup: Unchecked
Options: Eject media upon job completion
Schedule: No schedule set yet
I right clicked the job and ran it manually. It seems like it's writing only the vbk and the oldest vib to tape:
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[color=#FF0000][b]10/13/2016 9:17:10 AM :: Building source backup files list started at 10/13/2016 9:17 AM
10/13/2016 9:17:10 AM :: Full backup from Exchange2016-10-08T185907.vib (10/8/2016 12:00:00 AM) restore point will be placed to media set
10/13/2016 9:17:10 AM :: New Exchange2016-10-07T190505.vbk restore point will be placed to media set
10/13/2016 9:17:10 AM :: Source backup files detected. VBK: 1, VBK map: 1, VIB: 0 [/b][/color]
10/13/2016 9:17:11 AM :: Creating full backup map for E:\Backups\Exchange\Exchange2016-10-08T185907.vib
10/13/2016 9:18:29 AM :: Queued for processing at 10/13/2016 9:18:29 AM
10/13/2016 9:18:29 AM :: Required backup infrastructure resources have been assigned
10/13/2016 9:19:14 AM :: Drive 1 (Server: dpsvrbackup2.tdpg.local, Library: IBM 3573-TL C.30, Drive ID: Tape1) locked successfully
10/13/2016 9:19:14 AM :: Unloading tape 000725L4 from Drive 1 (Server: dpsvrbackup2.tdpg.local, Library: IBM 3573-TL C.30, Drive ID: Tape1) to Slot 22
10/13/2016 9:19:42 AM :: Loading tape 000238L4 from Slot 17 to Drive 1 (Server: dpsvrbackup2.tdpg.local, Library: IBM 3573-TL C.30, Drive ID: Tape1)
10/13/2016 9:20:24 AM :: Current tape is 000238L4
10/13/2016 9:20:42 AM :: New tape backup session started, encryption: disabled
10/13/2016 9:20:54 AM :: Processing full backups started at 10/13/2016 09:17:09
10/13/2016 9:20:54 AM :: Processing Exchange2016-10-07T190505.vbk
Is this expected? Based on what I had been told, I had thought that it would combine the vbk and all of the subsequent vib files on the fly and write the result to tape, but this seems to have chosen only the vbk and the oldest vib which would mean that when we run a full on Saturday, we're going to be a week behind writing to tape. The vsb file that was created is named according to the oldest vib file (Exchange2016-10-08T185907.vib_82fe636f-674a-4509-99b0-a998c198f4b0.vsb).
The guide on working with Tape Media (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/backup/vsp ... media.html) doesn't seem to get into very specific details about how it works, only the basics of how to set it up.
Thanks for any info you can provide.
Dylan