benjayhal
7 years agoLevel 3
Netbackup Tape writing behaviour
Hello All,
I have a question about tape retention. The question may be stupid and /i think i know the answer, but I am not sure.
In a situation where netbackup is writing a frontend(client to tape) or SLP driven deduplication backup (disk to tape).. and for some reason the backup fails.
What happens to the data that has already been written on the tape? Is it retained as per the policy schedule retention that is defined or is it discarded?
Also what happens to such a tape where the backup that was writing to it failed before it could complete?
Is there a way of identifying such tapes? Maybe erasing them and putting them i nthe scratch pool?
Any help is fully appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Jay