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Fasih_Rehman's avatar
10 years ago

how to delete the expire media from tape cartridge

Dear All,                      In our production environment we are using the Symantec Backup Exec 2014 we need to delete the differential backup set from tape                      cartridge an...
  • pkh's avatar
    10 years ago
    You cannot selectively delete a tape backup set. You can only overwrite the entire tape which will wipe out all the backup set on the tape. To overwrite a tape, you either wait for the OPP to expire or associate the tape with the scratch media set
  • VJware's avatar
    10 years ago

    Tapes are sequential read/write. So overwrite will start from the beginning of the tape.