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Acronis Backup 12.5 Backup To Tape - Keep Backup Indefinitely

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Quick question (I hope).  I run a full backup to tape every night.  I am running into an issue where older backups have been "marked for deletion" when I attempt to run a recovery from them.  Although I think I now understand the procedures to recover those files, it is not what I would consider to be an easy process.

My question is this.  If I set the cleanup for my backup plans to "Keep Backups Indefinitely", what will happen when I attempt to overwrite a tape?  Will the tape still get over written, or is that data "locked" because of the retention policy as stated above?

Please advise.  Thanks,

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Hello Bud, if you have "marked for deletion" image backups, you can recover only the entire backup. Else, need to Rescan the tape to "unmark" its backups. For File backups type, you can recover files from "marked" backups.

If you set option "Keep Backups Indefinitely", the most easiest way to overwrite the tape is to move it to the Free pool. All backups stored on this tape will be "marked as deleted" and the tape can be taken for overwitting automatically once the next backup starts.

Andrey,

If I am reading your reply correctly:

I run a full backup on Monday to a tape labeled Monday.  The backup plan has a policy to keep backups indefinitely as well as overwite the tape.  The tape is a member of a tape pool that I have created.  The following Monday when I use the same tape, the existing backup on that tape will not be overwritten?

In case if you have standalone tape drive (streamer) and insert the Monday tape each time manually, then yes, you can use the option "Overwrite the tape in standalone drive..." without moving the tape to Free poll in the Backup Console.

Moving to Free pool is helpful if you have autoloader/library, keep backups indefinitely and want to overwrite some tape - the software will take it from the Free pool automatically.