SysAdmin1615
9 years agoLevel 2
Why are the tapes marked overwriteable?
When I put in expired tapes to the tape machine, Backup Exec is marking all the tapes overwriteable and linking them together. I only have 6 tapes availible to write on to. I used to have only two ov...
- 9 years ago
Have you got Media Protection (in the overall BE settings) set to None? as if you have this will ignore any Overwrite protection in your media sets.
I am also not sure what you mean by linking them together but otherwise agree with Larry Fine if the tapes are expired then for a tape this means overwritable.