When you start Backup Exec for the first time you will be prompted with a first time startup wizard. This wizard will walk you through setting up your media sets, device configuration, Backup-to-disk folders, verify device configuration, and setup your logon account. The media set wizard is first up, this wizard will walk you through setting the overwrite protection period and the append period.
You first have to choose to either setup the media now or later. If you choose to continue with setting up the media it will start. If you do not want to setup the media at that time you can always do it later.
Since this is the first time creating a media set there is nothing to edit. You then need to give it some sort of name which can help you easily identify what is being backed up.
You then need to choose how long you want the media to be protected from being overwritten. This will vary depending on your backup scheme and how you intend to do everything. You can then set how long you want media to have the ability to be appended to. This is useful if you ever want to retire media or take it out of circulation at a certain time.
You then get a summary of what you have just setup and are able to either setup more media sets or finish.
After choosing your overwrite protection you want to specify the order of what type of media is overwritten. The default is to overwrite scratch media first but you can choose to overwrite recycled media first as well. Lastly you can set how much overwrite protection you want to use. Full will never allow media to be rewritten, partial will not allow allocated media to be overwritten but will let imported media to be, and none will let anything be overwritten.
