Robotic Library Backup

Does anyone know how to successfully schedule a backup with NTBACKUP using a
robotic library? I have an autoloader and am having difficulty setting this
up.

I have read articles relating to Stand-Alone backup devices and have
successfully managed to schedule four separate differential backups (the
correct tapes are selected for Mon diff, Tues diff, etc) - these work
perfectly but each backup consists of one tape only so media pools do not
come into play.

I have a Robotic library with 8 slots and would like to use the same 8 tapes
every week in my full backup. How do i set the media pool up and schedule it
so that the same tapes are selected each time??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cris
Mon Jan 24 10:33:16 CST 2005

If you go through the SBS backup wizard, does it find your device?

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> Does anyone know how to successfully schedule a backup with NTBACKUP using
> a
> robotic library? I have an autoloader and am having difficulty setting
> this
> up.
>
> I have read articles relating to Stand-Alone backup devices and have
> successfully managed to schedule four separate differential backups (the
> correct tapes are selected for Mon diff, Tues diff, etc) - these work
> perfectly but each backup consists of one tape only so media pools do not
> come into play.
>
> I have a Robotic library with 8 slots and would like to use the same 8
> tapes
> every week in my full backup. How do i set the media pool up and schedule
> it
> so that the same tapes are selected each time??
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>