How to configure Backup To Disk in Symantec Backup Exec 2010

[fishermanswife1]

Best practice is to leave the default file size of 4 GB. Changing the file size to 100 GB causes 100 GB files to be created. When restoring, it will have to read 100 GB files into memory to access the data to be restored.

[cyclograzzer1]

Hmmm. I tried before with BE 12.5 to do some B2D which didn't work. I followed the slightly more elaborate steps on this video, setup a small backup job and off it went. Finished and notified me, unlike previously where it had hung. Good work LK, saved me a lot of time and energy ...

[briandoffing]

Why would you set the Overwrite to 2 days and the append to 5? Your jobs will overwrite every two days. The concept of appending only applies to sequential access media not random access hard drives. Set your append period as low as it can go which is 1 hour and then use overwrite on all jobs. Appending to disk causes fragmentation. The two day overwrite protection period in this example would allow for two full nightly backups to be kept at all times with the oldest being overwritten.