12-08-2014 11:40 AM
Hi Peeps,
BE 2012 SP1 on Win 2008 R2 - B2D2T...
I have tape media that are not full, yet not appendable - and I think I do understand the overwriteable and appendable characteristics - I don;t want to change this.
I sometimes have the situation where the DC Ops are unable to replace tape media (staffing levels) and yet I don't want to increase the append time because I normally need the media (of which there are always a few non-full) to be not in-use so that they are free to be ejected for off-site storage... but...
...what I sometimes want (need) to do is make one or more non-full tape media temporarily appendable again - so that I can add a few extra re-run backups (i.e. the duplications) to tape - so that they can go off-site.
Is there a way to make a tape appendable again, yet not loose what's already on it?
I can't find such a function in the GUI - so I'm wondering if the BEM CLI has a method for this?
Thanks.
Dave.
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12-08-2014 10:28 PM
12-08-2014 10:28 PM
12-09-2014 12:17 AM
Hi pkh - if I increase the append time of the media set to something that therefore goes beyond the sum of 'original use date of a piece of tape media + append time' will this be effective for any and all media that are already members of the media set (i.e. those tape media which are currently in use) ? Or does the new 'append time' value only take affect when next/new/additional media are selected?
i.e. can I temporarily increase 'append time' of a media set - so that media get used by a waiting backup/duplication job?
12-09-2014 01:53 AM
12-09-2014 08:22 AM
Thank you again.
12-09-2014 08:25 AM
Apologies - one more question - if a duplication job is waiting for available media, and I then increase the media set append time, and then 'OK' acknowledge the 'media required alert' - will the waiting duplication job re-evaluate available media (and thus continue normally) - or does the duplication job have to be manually cancelled, and manually re-submitted for it to now select from what is now available media?
12-09-2014 08:35 AM
When a job cannot locate an appendable tape it switches to searching for overwriteable, once this change occurs it never changes back to looking for appendable.
Oh an be aware that if a job fills the first tape and then asks for media the second tape request is always an overwrite request.
12-09-2014 09:03 AM
Thanks Colin.