Acronis Backup 12.5 Backup To Tape - Keep Backup Indefinitely
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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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?
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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.
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