Tape • What is the correct way to handle this - Failed backup within Tape job.

Hi,

I am unsure the best way to handle this scenario, can anyway assist?

Scenario:

1. Disk backup of 4 VM's (full) run on Sunday night and 1 of the VM's failed to backup. Following the completion of the job, the backup files are then written to tape.
2. Monday morning I complete a retry of the original backup job on the failed server and it completes successfully.
3. I then need to re-run the tape job containing all 4 successfully completed backup files.

Issue:

When I run the tape job again, it only attempts to write the latest (Monday) backup of the single server to tape.

Currently I have created a new job which is now backing up all instances (last 3 months) to a tape so I have something immutable to be archived off site.

Have I done something wrong? How can I complete a successful retry and write only the very latest backup of each VM to a tape?

Thank you.

Statistics: Posted by IanW_82 — Sep 03, 2025 6:55 am

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