Backup Exec Upgrade Cycle Explained:

Here we attempt to explain the Symantec Backup Exec upgrade life cycle. Start at 'Promise' and work your way round clockwise.

A New Strategy

I'm going to try a new strategy. We're going to create new jobs, one by one, for the servers. Each job will backup using old style Full/Incremental jobs, to the local server with basic 4 week rotation. Not even synthetics now, we can kiss goodbye to even more space. Thanks Backup Exec!

Let's see in a few days if that works either (see the lifecycle post below) - I'm at the "hope" stage again here...)