05-24-2012 07:30 PM
I please want to know one thing. If a tape that I put in, has a overwrite protection mode still enabled and I move it to the scratch media. Will the backup happen now.Do I need to move the tape from scratch media to another media set also for the backup to work?
05-24-2012 08:28 PM
When you move a tape from any media set to scratch media set than it becomes overwritable.
If you move a tape from scratch media set to any other media set(eg: Weekly or Daily)
than the tape inherits properties of the Weekly or Daily media set.
05-24-2012 11:47 PM
Will the backup happen now
Yes... BE will use this tape, if no other suitable medias are avilable to use.
Do I need to move the tape from scratch media to another media set also for the backup to work?
No.
05-25-2012 02:40 AM
Scratch media set will always contain over writable media and you don’t have to move the tape from scratch media set, it is handled by the backup job. For more details refer to scratch media section of the below technote:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH5459