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Backup Exec Overwrite Protection and Append Period

1. The append period begins when media is allocated to a media set and allows data to be added to the media while protecting existing data from loss. 2. The overwrite protection period runs concurrently after the append period expires and protects existing data from being overwritten while preventing new data from being added. 3. After the overwrite protection period expires, the media becomes recyclable and new data from another backup job can be written, causing loss of the original data.

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Backup Exec Overwrite Protection and Append Period

1. The append period begins when media is allocated to a media set and allows data to be added to the media while protecting existing data from loss. 2. The overwrite protection period runs concurrently after the append period expires and protects existing data from being overwritten while preventing new data from being added. 3. After the overwrite protection period expires, the media becomes recyclable and new data from another backup job can be written, causing loss of the original data.

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212 Managing media

About media overwrite protection

Figure 4-1 Append periods and overwrite protection periods

The append period begins when the media is allocated to a


media set.
A PPE NDPERI OD

The overwrite protection period is


TIME

measured from the time of the last


OVER

write to the media.

During the append period, data


can be added to the media. Any
R IT E

data already on the media is The media


protected against loss. cannot be
Overwritten
P R OWT E C T I O N

by another
The append period ends.
job during
this interval.
After the append (However,
period expires, and you could
while the overwrite erase the
protection period is media or
still active, data associate it
cannot be added to with scratch
P ERIO D

the media. Any data media.)


TIME

already on the
media is protected
against loss.

The overwrite protection period


expires.

New
data
After the overwrite protection
period expires, the media
becomes recyclable. This
means that new data can be
TIME

written to the beginning of the


media by a new backup job
(causing loss of the original
data).
Old
data

The append and overwrite protection periods that you specify apply to all the data
on the media.

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