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CHONG_WU
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standalone tape drive backup

I have a standalone tape drive, daily incremental backup data  is less than the tape capacity, how can I set the retention period or policy for this tape to backup more days(append data, not overwrite)?
  • run the above command on cli and You will find.
    ie for suspended tape
    id rl images allocated last updated density kbytes restores
    vimages expiration last read <------- STATUS ------->
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    A00499 11 74 02/12/2009 05:15 02/12/2009 09:40 hcart2 292029093 0
    MPX 02/11/2016 09:40 02/24/2009 16:16 SUSPENDED

    ie for FULL
    id rl images allocated last updated density kbytes restores
    vimages expiration last read <------- STATUS ------->
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    A00233 1 336 07/25/2009 18:00 07/26/2009 21:00 hcart2 440026840 0
    MPX 08/05/2009 20:31 N/A FULL

    ie for ACTIVE
    id rl images allocated last updated density kbytes restores
    vimages expiration last read <------- STATUS ------->
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    A00031 1 176 07/18/2009 18:00 07/20/2009 08:35 hcart2 386342408 0
    MPX 07/30/2009 07:18 N/A