Retention Period Problem
- 17 years ago
krono wrote:How is it possible to append on a media ??? I never set this.
This is default (only?) action. If there is ACTIVE media in the Volume Pool (i.e. space left on tape) then when a backup starts it will use that tape from the Volume Pool. If there are no ACTIVE media in the Volume Pool (i.e. FULL/no space left on tape) then when the backup starts it will assign a tape from the Scratch Pool (if one is configured). If there are no ACTIVE tapes available and a Scratch Pool is NOT configured then the backup will fail.
krono wrote:
I believed that there is only two possibilities. If the tape is available it takes it and overwrite everything, or the tape is not available and it take a tape from the scratch pool...Will only 'overwrite' everything IF all images have expired (Time Assigned column in Media/Volume Pool will be blank). Yes, if no tape available it will take a tape from Scratch.
krono wrote:In which situation the policy will perform an append to media instead of an overwrite ?
See above - will append if tape available & ACTIVE (not FULL), 'overwrite' only if ALL images have expired.
krono wrote:When I perform a MediaWritten on the tape which is full, i can see old backups of more than one month !! How is it possible that the tape is full but contains old backups that are expired due to retention period ?
What's the latest/most recent expiry of the images? Possibly newer images appended to this tape. Could be that this tape is frozen.