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User999
Level 4
13 years ago

Restore list after tape overwriten

Hi, When a tape has got overwriten, the restore selection (grouped by date) which falls under the tape in BE will be dissapeared? Or it will still be shown in the restore list, but not able to...
  • CraigV's avatar
    13 years ago

    No, leave it at 90 days unless you have a very high level of logging on your job logs. This deletes old catalogs which can see your HDD run out of disk space if you're generating very large files for instance.

    Running a Catalog doesn't take all that long, maybe an hour or so, so you can leave it as is. Obviously don't overwrite the tape or the data you might want to restore would have been deleted!