Hey guys,
Firstly - apologies if this information is already here somewhere, I can find lots on tape appending but nothing that applies to my problem.
I am having trouble with my weekly jobs not appending to tapes properly. The weekly jobs are created from a weekly 'policy' there are 5 jobs that run off this policy and I import 7x LTO4 tapes. Eventually there are a couple of jobs that sit there saying 'please insert overwritable media' however there are multiple tapes that are only between 5% and 80% full. I wonder if there is some sort of limitation that only allows me to append to a tape with the same job? I haven't found such a limitation documented anywhere.
The media sets are configured to 'Infinite - allow append'
The policy is configured to 'Append to media, overite if no appendable media is available'
It's becoming a problem because I am throwing loads of new tapes into my rotations - they are quite expensive :)
Environment details:
- Backup exec 12.5 service pack 3.
- 4x Media servers with centralised server option/SAN shared storage.
- connected to IBM TS3310 library.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Jason.
