RE: Multiple tapes backup

Hi Lici,

Thanks for using the SBS newsgroup!

For your description, I understand that you want to know how to setup
scheduled unattended backup with two tapes. If I am off base, please don't
hesitate to let me know.

To implement the unattended backup with two taps, you need follow below
steps to prepare each tape. This operation writes a "free media" label on
each tape. Remember that Ntbackup can use only prepared tapes during a
backup session. Calculate how many tapes you need for your backup strategy,
and prepare each tape before you continue to the next section. The detail
steps:

Preparing the Tapes:

Use the following steps to prepare each tape that you want Ntbackup to use.
1. Under Computer Management, expand Storage, expand Removable Storage, and
then click Media.
2. Insert a tape into the tape drive. RSM reads the tape, and then displays
the tape in the right pane.
3. In the right pane, right-click the tape, and then click Free to remove
data from the tape and mark it as free. You can monitor the work queue for
the operation to make sure the operation is finished, or you can wait for
the state to change to Idle and Usage to change to "Free."
4. After the tape is labeled as "free media," you can eject the tape by
right-clicking the tape and then clicking Eject. The Eject Wizard starts
and moves the tape to the off-line media library.
Labeling the Tapes:

After you prepare the tapes, use Ntbackup to write a Microsoft Tape Format
(MTF) label. Use a name that describes the contents of the tape. After this
is accomplished, you can schedule Ntbackup to use that tape over and over
again, by specifying the same media label name.

Use the following steps to label each tape that you want Ntbackup to be
able to reuse.

NOTE: This operation writes a unique MTF label on each tape. Make sure that
each tape has a unique name, even if you rotate different sets of tapes
(weekly).
1. Make sure that a prepared tape is in the stand-alone tape library.
2. Start Ntbackup, and then click Backup Wizard.
3. In the What to Backup dialog box, click backup selected files, drives,
or network data.
4. In the Items to Backup dialog box, click a single folder on any local
drive.
5. In the Where to Store the Backup dialog box, under backup media type,
click the tape drive, and in the backup media area, click new media.
6. In the Completing the Backup Wizard dialog box, click Advanced.
7. Continue through the screens until the Backup Label dialog box is
displayed. In this dialog box, you can change the Backup Label and Media
Label fields.

The information in the Media Label field distinguishes one tape from
another. Change the Media Label field so that the field contains meaningful
information to represent a tape for each day of the week. The example in
this article uses unique names like Monday-Full, Tuesday-Full, and so on
(one for each day/tape).
8. Continue through the dialog boxes, and then start the backup process.
This backs up the single folder and writes a meaningful media label that
you can use from now on to schedule backups.
9. After the backup process finishes, quit Ntbackup.
10. If you now view Removable Storage Media, you see that the tape shows
"Application" under Usage. Right-click the tape to view its properties. If
you click the side tab, you see that the identification label field
contains the same name that you specified in step 7. That is the name you
want to use from now on, whenever you schedule a backup for that day's tape
and choose to rewrite the same label name.
11. Right-click the tape, click Eject, and then physically label the tape,
using the same label name that you specified during the backup.
12. Repeat this procedure for each tape until all of the tapes have valid
MTF media labels.

After prepared and labeled each tape, you can schedule recurring daily
backup jobs by using the built-in scheduler in Ntbackup (NtBackup.exe). For
more detail steps to schedule the backup task, you can refer to the
following KB article.

How to Schedule Unattended Backups by Using a Stand-Alone Tape Library
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314844

Hope above information helps! I am happy to be assistance of you and look
forward to your reply!

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,

Jenny Wu
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>Subject: Multiple tapes backup
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>Did anybody here ever successfully setup daily scheduled backup that runs
on
>2 tapes using autoloader with ntbackup? If anybody did, I would like to
hear
>how did you make it work.
>
>Thank you.
>
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>

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