Allow Append suddenly changed to not appendable

[Christopher_H3]

For a while now the backup's have been going good, then all of a sudden, the media set is remarking the tapes as not appendable. I've gone through and checked the media set properties and it's set to allow append every 2 days... For some reason though it's changing out to Not appendable.

[shweta_rege]

Hello,

Do you get any error or any events in the event logs?

What are the media set properties set?

what is the overwrite protection period set?

Set your jobs to 'overwrite if there is no appendable media available'

For the following refer the following document

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/192180.htm


******************************************************************
*****************************************************************

Note : If we do not receive your reply within two business days, this post would be marked ‘assumed answered’ and would be moved to ‘answered questions’ pool.


Thank You.

[Thomas_Bianco]

append time is the time AFTER THE BACKUP where a new backup job can append data. this is kinda counterintuitive.

an example:
let's assume your media set is append=2 days and overwrite=4 days

a media is used in a backup at 10 pm Monday and runs for 2 hours.
tuesdays backup at 10 pm will append to the same media.
wensday's will use it if it starts before 9:59:59 pm (2 days after the START of the job).
after that, it will not be overwritable until friday at midnight (4 days after the END of the job)

i hope this clears up your issue.

[Christopher_H3]

Do you get any error or any events in the event logs? - Nope

What are the media set properties set? - Overwrite protection is 2 Days, with Infinate allow append

what is the overwrite protection period set? 2 days

Set your jobs to 'overwrite if there is no appendable media available' - Already is

[Ken_Putnam]

Is it possible that the tape(s) is/are filling up?

BackupExec will mark a full tape as not appendable, regardless of the media set APP settings, since there is no room on the tape to add more data.