Backup Question

What effect does using the FORMAT command have when backing up to disk? BOL
only addresses tapes, so I'm not sure.It allow you to split up a media set, and also overwrite a device earlier
then what you specified in RETAINDAYS or EXPIREDATE.
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Tibor Karaszi
"John Hamilton" <jhamil@.nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> What effect does using the FORMAT command have when backing up to disk?
BOL
> only addresses tapes, so I'm not sure.
>|||So, does that mean it does not wipe out the entire directory on a hard
drive?
"Tibor Karaszi" <tibor.please_reply_to_public_forum.karaszi@.cornerstone.se>
wrote in message news:kvupb.36249$dP1.120988@.newsc.telia.net...
> It allow you to split up a media set, and also overwrite a device earlier
> then what you specified in RETAINDAYS or EXPIREDATE.
> --
> Tibor Karaszi
>
> "John Hamilton" <jhamil@.nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:utjmnvhoDHA.2312@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > What effect does using the FORMAT command have when backing up to disk?
> BOL
> > only addresses tapes, so I'm not sure.
> >
> >
>|||No. it doesn't wipe out the whole directory. It has
nothing to do with the NT FORMAT command.
When backing up to disk, I use the FORMAT option primarily
for reusing a backup file that was part of a backup stripe
set or for reusing a file in a new backup stripe set.
Other than that, I don't use the FORMAT option at all when
backing up to disk.
Linchi
>--Original Message--
>So, does that mean it does not wipe out the entire
directory on a hard
>drive?
>"Tibor Karaszi"
<tibor.please_reply_to_public_forum.karaszi@.cornerstone.se>
>wrote in message news:kvupb.36249
$dP1.120988@.newsc.telia.net...
>> It allow you to split up a media set, and also
overwrite a device earlier
>> then what you specified in RETAINDAYS or EXPIREDATE.
>> --
>> Tibor Karaszi
>>
>> "John Hamilton" <jhamil@.nowhere.com> wrote in message
>> news:utjmnvhoDHA.2312@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> > What effect does using the FORMAT command have when
backing up to disk?
>> BOL
>> > only addresses tapes, so I'm not sure.
>> >
>> >
>>
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