I seem to encounter a lot of odd problems that fly in the face of best practices.
We have a server 2008 r2 exchange 2010 machine that, for reasons best not investigating, can't back up to the tape drive. There is an installation of BE2010r3 present.
We have a server 2003 machine with BE2010r3 installed with an attached LTO5 tape drive present.
This is obviously not ideal but I can't change the setup.
At present the 2008 machine is set to backup to disk and the 2003 machine then backs up this b2d folder treating it as data. This is by no means ideal and I have a few concerns about the arrangement.
Firstly, is that there is no relationship between the jobs so if one overruns, the other will not complete the backup that evening.
Secondly, I believe there may be an issue with catalogues and attempting to restore any data backed up from the 2008 machine
Thirdly, the b2d folder is filling up with IMG files, despite their overwrite period being set appropriately. I believe this will continue until all space is used on the drive before it then attemps to re-write.
Overall, this is a messy setup that I would like to bring some semblence of order to. Is there a way I can get the server 2003 BE to duplicate the 2008 BE's backup, or somehow control what the 2008 BE is doing? Or am I just living in a dream world there.
Any help would be appreciated