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Hi Im wondering if anyone can help me.

We've installed the Server Essentials product, i current have a FULL simple backup that goes to a location that is NAS network share this works fine. its set to delete backups older than 3 weeks which seems to work ok.

When i try to get the backup to go to a 2nd location which is a tape device it stops working, after one or two weeks, i have the the retention rules set to delete backups older than 6 days ( i tried 1 week first), but it seems not to delete old backups from the tape device.

Am i doing something wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jamie

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Hi, backups from tape are not physically deleted from tapes by retention rules, it marked as deleted in the database.
A tape become available for overwritting only if all backups on it are marked as deleted, otherwice software will seek for available (empty) media.
Make sure that retentions rules adjusted so to ensure all backups on a tapa are marked as deleted.
In order to achieve the best result, you can try to adjust a Tape-related backup options. And don't mix different backup plans with different retention rules on the same tapes (use own tape pool for each vault and set backup plans to own vaults).