LTO8 Full Backup to Tape every day, no matter what tape is inserted

[U.Sundermann]

Hello,

one of our customers with VB&R 11 Enterprise wants to backup all data from the NAS backup repository to an LTO8 tape. No matter, what tape is inserted (single drive). After the "normal" backup jobs, every file in the NAS backup repository shall be written to the tape.

The customer wants everything on one single tape, equal what was before saved to this tape. LTO8 has enough space. This is no Problem.

Pretty simple? I found nothing at all.

Regards
Uwe Sundermann

[soncscy]

Hey Uwe,

I think fastest way would be File to Tape that __only__ does full backups. But the restore story for this is awful since you have to search the tapes inserted.

What is the rotation scheme you plan? I think multiple jobs + media pools are the answer here, and just assign dedicated tapes to each media pool.

[U.Sundermann]

Hey,
one Tapejob for every day, one mediapool for every day and the right tape inserted? I think, the best way do do an simple tapejob is an other software. Why can´t veeam handle tapes like rdx medias? Data not on this tape? Write new and everything is fine. Does nobody else want´s to use tapes in this simple way?
Regards
Uwe Sundermann

[U.Sundermann]

Hallo,
this is my solution:
1.) Backup all virtuell Server to an NAS Storage with Backup Mode "reverse incremental"
2.) Run this batch script after the backup: "Powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File C:\BACKUP\TAPE-START.ps1"
3.) This is in TAPE-START.ps1:

Get-VBRTapeDrive | Start-VBRTapeInventory
Get-VBRTapeMedium -MediaPool “Unrecognized” | Move-VBRTapeMedium -MediaPool “Free”
Get-VBRTapeJob -Name "TAPE-JOB-NAME" | Start-VBRJob -RunAsync

This script puts all the "Unrecognized" tapes to free and starts the tape Backup.
The job "TAPE-JOB-NAME" is an File to Tape Backup Job. The files and folders to backup is the nas storage. Within this job there is no automatic start time, because there is no selection like "After Job....."

Seems to work fine.

Regards
Uwe

[peters.]

Hello,

is it possible to start a new full backup to tape each time a new (empty) tape is inserted? Afterwards incrementals should be running daily until a new tape is inserted again.
In the Media pool -> schedule -> you can configure weekly or monthly interval only.
The reason for this setup is, that sometimes we forget to change the tape before the full backup (scheduled weekly) is started, and then the new tape has incrementals only.

Thank you
Peter

[HannesK]

Hello,
sounds like the workaround from above might solve your question?

Best regards,
Hannes