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October 1st, 2019 12:00
Networker is not setting a tape as Full/Read Only during a new backup
I am running Networker 8.2 on a Windows 2008 R2 server attached to a Quantum Scalar 1500 tape library. One of our full backups with a retention period of one year has started to mark the tapes it uses as Full/Recyclable, rather than Full/Read Only - and started overwriting itself when running out of available tapes. So I have been manually marking them as "Read Only" to prevent that from happening. But it seems that the next day, what I manually marked as read only is now recyclable again. Everything appears to be setup properly in Networker.
Anyone have any experience with this?
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bingo.1
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October 1st, 2019 13:00
'readonly' just prevents writing to the volume - it does not prevent aging.
May I suggest that you set the volume from 'recycle auto' to 'recycle manual' to prevent aging.
bingo.1
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October 1st, 2019 13:00
I just read my answer and have to admit that you should have been a bit more precise.
Instaed of
"May I suggest that you set the volume from 'recycle auto' to 'recycle manual' to prevent aging."
I should have said
"May I suggest that you set the volume from 'recycle auto' to 'recycle manual' to prevent automatic recycling."
JackC2007
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October 2nd, 2019 09:00
Thank you, I will try that.