Before playing around with scripts, (unless you like that kind of thing )
you could always run a separate incremental job on that folder. Since you
will rarely if ever be changing a .BKF file, that ought to solve your problem,
right?

"Ash" wrote:
>A quick overview of my problem:
>
>I am running a full backup job every week to our storage disk array. Then
>it gets backuped from the disk array to tape over the weekend (the tape
gets
>stored off site).
>
>The folder on the disk array where the weekly back ups go to will store
(at
>least depending on the month) 5 weeks of information at one time. They
have
>an overwrite protection of 5 days.
>
>When I run the disk to tape backup, I have to backup the whole folder.
This
>is filling up the tapes I have allocated for that job on our DLT loader.
>
>My question is: Is there to setup my weekly disk to tape backup to only
>backup the "newest" job from the disk array folder. In other words if I
>have 4 previous backups from April in the folder and the newest backup is
>from May, how do I only get May's backup and not the other 4 from April?
I
>am assuming there is probably going to have to be some scripting to be
>done??
>
>Thanks
>
>

Ahh yes.. That is a good idea. Only backup the weeks material where the
archive bit has been set.

Thanks Ken.
"Ken Putnam" wrote in message
news:3ce29d82$1@hronntp01....
>
> Before playing around with scripts, (unless you like that kind of thing
)
> you could always run a separate incremental job on that folder. Since you
> will rarely if ever be changing a .BKF file, that ought to solve your
problem,
> right?
>
> "Ash" wrote:
> >A quick overview of my problem:
> >
> >I am running a full backup job every week to our storage disk array.
Then
> >it gets backuped from the disk array to tape over the weekend (the tape
> gets
> >stored off site).
> >
> >The folder on the disk array where the weekly back ups go to will store
> (at
> >least depending on the month) 5 weeks of information at one time. They
> have
> >an overwrite protection of 5 days.
> >
> >When I run the disk to tape backup, I have to backup the whole folder.
> This
> >is filling up the tapes I have allocated for that job on our DLT loader.
> >
> >My question is: Is there to setup my weekly disk to tape backup to only
> >backup the "newest" job from the disk array folder. In other words if I
> >have 4 previous backups from April in the folder and the newest backup is
> >from May, how do I only get May's backup and not the other 4 from April?
> I
> >am assuming there is probably going to have to be some scripting to be
> >done??
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
>