B2D file size question

[tookawhile]

I'm backing 600GB to a backup disk folder, the default setting for the file size is 1GB - I have changed this to 1TB, is this the correct approach?

Or, if I set it lower, will BE break down into lots of smaller files?

 

[steveot]

Well I wouldnt do that. What happens if that backup to diks folder gets corrupt by the OS you will lose the whole set. I wouldnt go more than 20gig. Also in your setting above if a job were to start to overwrite and you cancelled the job you set would be gone. If the media was in smaller pieces then you could at least to save something. Backup exec will keep track of all the b2d file so I know it looks messy but you just playing with fire setting b2d file size that high

 

[tookawhile]

Thanks for the very informative reply, and having a large file might be the source of some the problems I've been having with the tape drive going off-line (see earlier post).

So, you would have 30 x 20GB files to make up a backup for 600GB?

Your right, my initial thoughts were that it would look messy, and when I first set-up BE I want for the simple approach, first time I've ever used it, but now I'm more familiar with it the media management side of it doesn't seem quite so daunting.

 

[p4rm4r]

I have a similar problem. Currently my backups are 400g, so I have set the maximum folder size limit to 500g

The maximum number of folder sets is 1. but I keep getting 2 .bak files. Why is this. Ideally I would like one so that I can set up an erase job on it. Rather than setting up 2 erase jobs.

I need to set up erase jobs so that before the backup occurs the next day the erase job will run and erase the previous nights backup from the backup to disk folder.

The over write function in the backup job doesn’t seem to be working and I get a disk is full error message when doing the backups.

I am doing this the long way round? Is there an easier way of doing this?