09-15-2009 05:07 AM
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09-15-2009 07:38 AM
Thanks for the speedy response Colin.
We have had it like this forever and a day and never a issue, as things stand right now my allocation date is today as it had writes to it as it was set to zero as i needed to do my backups.
I changed my Overwrite protection to 6 days and my appendable days to 5.
This should allow me to be able to append until the 20th without overwriting any tape and on 21st allow tape to be overwritten?
However when i run a backup now it goes into a queued state, requesting scratch or overwritable media?
Seems like a bug to me.
Regards,
Jerome
09-15-2009 07:38 AM
Thanks for the speedy response Colin.
We have had it like this forever and a day and never a issue, as things stand right now my allocation date is today as it had writes to it as it was set to zero as i needed to do my backups.
I changed my Overwrite protection to 6 days and my appendable days to 5.
This should allow me to be able to append until the 20th without overwriting any tape and on 21st allow tape to be overwritten?
However when i run a backup now it goes into a queued state, requesting scratch or overwritable media?
Seems like a bug to me.
Regards,
Jerome
09-15-2009 08:02 AM
I changed my Overwrite protection to 6 days and my appendable days to 5.
This should allow me to be able to append until the 20th without overwriting any tape and on 21st allow tape to be overwritten?
Not quite
every time you append, the OPP is reset as of the time the media set is closed. So if you create a tape today (the 15), the OPP will be the 21st
If you append on the fifth day ((the 20th), the OPP will be the 26th
09-15-2009 08:05 AM
09-15-2009 09:36 AM
09-15-2009 10:40 AM
So if i set my overwrite protection to say 2 weeks and append to infinite, shouldnt it allow my backups to continue using those tapes? We always had it at 1 week and infinite append which was never an issue. now it wont allow me to append even with minimum write to the tapes.
With an OPP of 2 weeks, and an APP of Infinite, you should always be able to append, assuming there is room on the tape, but will not be able to Overwrite until two weeks after the last append job finishes
09-15-2009 11:03 AM
09-15-2009 11:09 AM
Do you ever run an Overwrite job against this/those tapes?
It is sounding like the tapes have filled up, and thus are no longer APPENDABLE regardless of the OPP and APP settings
09-15-2009 11:33 AM
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