Appendable tape wont append

From the information that you have provided I think this is the working as per the design.

I am sure in the backup job properties you have selected the option "Append to media. Overwrite if no appendable media is available"

So basically this option has two processes:

Process 1) Append to media

Process 2) Overwrite the media only when there is not appendable media

Now when you start the job, it first looks for the appendable media. From your information there is no media at the start. So this means that the first condition becomes returns False as records as there is no appendable media. So now the job tries to see the second condition.

So now the job will start looking for Overwrite Media. At this moment you insert the tape which is appendable but not overwritable. But as the first condition (process 1) is already checked or processed  the job is looking for overwritable media (process 2) and this is the reason why the tape is ejected as its not overwritable.

The best and simple way to resolve this is to insert the tape before the job starts.

I hope that I am clear with my explanation.

Thanks,

-Sush...

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