Hi,

I have Netbackup 3.2 on a Solaris 2.5.1 master (no slave). I use two media 
for alternately backing up my Netbackup database:

- Tape on a directly connected DLT4700 stacker
- 16 gig disk on the master server

On tapes I know that the database gets appended. This means that when the 
tape fills up you can just replace it. Does the same thing happen on a disk? 
The reason I ask is that currently the disk used to back up
the database is at 69% percent, but it keeps increasing/decreasing
(fluctuating) in size.

The first time the disk filled up to 89% of it's capacity, I figured that 
since I just needed the latest version of the database, I could unassign the 
disk, force an immediate backup of the database to tape, newfs the disk and 
then reassign it. Didn't quite work as I expected (append behaviour). When 
the next backup occured, the disk was again at 89%.

What I'd really like is that I have the latest copy on either the disk or 
the tape. I don't mind overwriting the disk.

The manuals do not seem to address this issue. Or am I missing something 
here?

Regards,
Rasana

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