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aharte
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13 years ago

Backup Exec 2012 - media scratched but data remains

Hi, As the Title says. I scratched a number of LTO 5 tapes and used them for subsequent backups, when I look at the data stored on the Tapes after a new backup job the old data is still on the tape...
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aharte
Level 3
13 years ago

Yes append is used by default for all jobs.  But on scratch media that should not be an issue?.

I am sure data is old because of the the creation date of data on the tape.  IE I scratched the tapes wed and ran a number of duplication jobs but data from 3 days previously not included in any of the new jobs is still showing on the tape.  

Just to add, the data duplicated after the scratch would not be enough to fill the tape so there would be space for the "scratched data".  I thought once a scratch and a single write was done the data was gone regardless of the size of write.  

Thanks,