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AlGon's avatar
AlGon
Level 6
13 years ago

Erase tapes used by Backup Exec

    Netbackup 7.1.0.2 Windows 2003 Server Hi, We've migrated a number of servers over to Netbackup from Backup Exec.  We would like to re-use some of the tapes used by Backup Exec. I run ...
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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    13 years ago

    This may be valid and not valid images

    If the tapes stay in the library for a while it can be the case that the first few hindgred GB have expired and are no longer valid, but the last 215GB are still valid

    Being tape it cannot overwrite the expired data at the start of the tape it just has to wait until the tape is either full and becomes available once all data has expired, or the tape is not used for a while and then alld ata expires

    Hope this makes sense

AlGon's avatar
AlGon
Level 6
13 years ago

Great.

This sounds like a good solution, I'll give this a go.

Is it possible the when I've done a quick erase on a tape, that has backup exec media on,  Netbackup isn't writing from the start of the tape?

Cheers