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Media-"Overwritable(Scratch Media)" "Not Appendable" Message

Mr_Mister
Level 3
Hi,
 
I'm a little green on Backup Exec.  I'm looking under Media and I see 8 tapes with:
 
"Overwrite Protected Until"- Overwritable(Scratch Media)
 
"Appendable Until"- Not Appendable
 
Will the tapes be not be written to?  I had a backup fail and it led to a document about possible bad media:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/273455

Is it possible to specify which tape you want to backup to?  That way I could test out one of the 8 tapes.

Thank you, for any help you can offer!

Troy

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Ken_Putnam
Level 6
"Overwrite Protected Until"- Overwritable(Scratch Media)
 
Any Overwrite job should be able to write to them
 
"Appendable Until"- Not Appendable    
 
You cannot append to a tape until there is at least one backup set on the tape (you cannot append a new/newly labeled/scratch tape.  And only if the backup set on the tape belongs to the same media set that your job is trying to use

Mr_Mister
Level 3
Thanks Ken!