I want to establish a simple backup system for 3 servers using one LTO6 Tape drive. I keep a box of scratch tapes available at all times. So I create 3 jobs to do a full backup of the different servers at 8pm, 12pm and 2am on the first Monday of each month. The 8pm full backup is set to use appendable media or overwrite if no append able media is available ( I do so because this is the first job, and scratch media is not appendable) The second and third jobs are set to append and not overwrite.
My question is this, if I’m positive my scratch tape will hold the data for all three servers, is this the best way to do this? I would also follow the same logic with incremental’s the rest of the month… i.e. have the earliest job set to append or overwrite and each job later to only append, every weekday until time to do the next full.