Appendable Status

[Gastino]

The daily media set is set for Infinite yet some of the tapes are showing tape full not appendable. we keep having this issue and our jobs keep stalling because it thinks the tape is full. It is set to overwiteable. All the settings ate set to overwite. I have to erase the tape and run again. Please help.

[Ken_Putnam]

Don't quite follow

Your daily job is set to append?

what is the APP for the media set?

When it says the tape is full, it will not overwrite until the OPP has expired - What is the OPP for the media set?

How many tapes are in the rotation?

How much data is backed up per job?

what kind of tape drive and media are you using?

[Gastino]

 Your daily job is set to append? The daily media set is set properties are set as : Overwrite protection period is 1 hr and the append period is set to none - Infinite allow append

what is the APP for the media set? Same as above

When it says the tape is full, it will not overwrite until the OPP has expired - What is the OPP for the media set? Same as above

How many tapes are in the rotation?  2

How much data is backed up per job? 120g

what kind of tape drive and media are you using? DLT 80/160  Dell Powervault 124T

Thanks

[Ken_Putnam]

How is the Daily Job defined?  Overwrite or Append?

Do you swap tapes each day?

[Gastino]

Forgive me if this is a bit more than need......

Priority and Availability

Limit availability of this selection list for backup to the following daily time window: No

Job priority:  Medium

Enable automatic cancellation for this selection list: No

Selection List Notification

Include job log with a notification to an e-mail or printer recipient: No

Device and Media

Device: DELL 2
Media set: Daily
Family name: Media created 9/19/2007 2:02:31 PM
When this job begins:  Overwrite media

Restrict backup of the selection list to devices on the following media server or media servers in a pool: No
Eject media after job completes: No
Write checksums to media: Yes
Retension media before backup: No
Password protect media: No
Use Write once, read many (WORM) media: No

Maximum number of devices to use for resources that support multiple data streams:  1
Minimum number of devices, terminate job if fewer devices are available:  1

Settings

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General

Job name:  Daily
Backup set description: Daily
Backup method for files: Full - Back up files - Using archive bit (reset archive bit)
Compression type: Hardware [if available, otherwise none]

Verify after backup completes: No

Advanced

Set Remote Agent priority: Normal Priority
Open file backup when Advanced Open File Option is not used:  With a lock

Enable single instance backup for NTFS volumes: No
Back up files and directories by following junction points: Yes
Back up data in Remote Storage: No

Advanced Open File

Use Advanced Open File Option: No

Advanced Disk-based Backup

Use offhost backup to move backup processing from remote computer to media server: No

Network and Security

Network interface:  Use any available network interface
Protocol:  Use any available protocol

Allow use of any available network interface, subnet, or protocol for remote agents not bound to the above network interface, subnet, or protocol: No

Encryption key:  None

Notification

Include job log with a notification to an e-mail or printer recipient: No

Frequency

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Schedule

Run according to schedule

Start no earlier than 7:00:00 PM and no later than 10:59:59 PM
Make the schedule go into effect on 5/15/2007

Schedule backup to run

On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of the first week
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of the second week
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of the third week
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of the fourth week
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of the last week

Submit job on hold: No

[Ken_Putnam]

If your job is defined as Overwrite, and you swap tapes every day and you are completeing each job on one tape (getting 120 GB on an 80/160 tape for 1.5:1 compression) I don't see how the tapes can be marked as full

If they were filling up, then I could understand the non-appendable, but ...

You may have to break down and open an incident on this, 'cause I sure don't see anything more to chase at this point

[Gastino]

using two tapes. The firt gets to 85g or so and then when the next tape gets ready to load it thinks #2 is write protected or something.

[Ken_Putnam]

In a loader?

if you run an inventory before the job starts, do both tapes show in BLUE ?

[Gastino]

Yes and yes

[Ken_Putnam]

In that case I can't see why the appendable status comes into play at all

The first tape is overwritten and fills up, and as such will be non-appendable

The second tape is also overwritten (all continuation tapes are overwrite regardless of whether the job itself is Append or Overwrite) but should have some append space after the job ends   However since the job is defined as Overwritem this shouldn't matter)