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Hi - does item 4):
"When a job is running, the tape is marked as unappendable because the end-of-file marker is not written. If a job starts while the first job is running, then it will not be able to find an appendable media. It will then switch to overwrite mode, if the job property is set to "Append, overwrite if if no appendable media is available", or it will fail if it is set to "Append, terminate job if no appendable media is available". For the first append option even when the job finally finishes waiting and start, it will use an overwriteable media and will not switch back to the append mode."
...also apply to duplication jobs ?
In my environment we have B2D2T, all backups are saved to eight disk storage areas, each with max two jobs - so I can 16 backups running - thus there can be many backups completing, all of which have an immediate duplication stage - but I only have two target tape drives for duplications - which leads on to many duplications waiting (which I'm ok with).
Please could someone re-explain point 4) above - but in terms of duplication jobs?
Thanks.