Backup Exec Blues

For a long time I’ve been maintaining a backup to disk to tape system without any significant issues. I configured the backup to disk folder to create files no greater than 2GB. I did this for several reasons, specifically to manage fragmentation and for the ease of deletion/moving of files. Further, because I have a finite amount of disk space (2TB), I need to be able to predict how much space is required for backup data so that I can set media overwrite protection accordingly. However, for no reason that I can yet understand, Backup Exec 11d is now ignoring the 2GB setting and is creating a single BKF file. These files are can grow to approximately 270GB in size. As you can imagine files this large are very difficult to manage and the fragmentation of them is very high thereby reducing performance.

Time to give Symantec technical support a call to ask them if they understand what is going on. Update to follow…

BEBlue

UPDATE:

Symantec Technical support could not offer an explanation for this issue.  Their suggestion is to recreate the folders and start again.  They also said that this is the first time they’ve seen this problem. 

So, I’m forced into recreating a B2D folder with the hope that this won’t happen again.  However, I will be monitoring this very closley and if this issue occurs again I’ll be straight on that phone to Symantec demanding a fix.

BEBlue