To the best of my knowledge, the tape will be over written if:

 all of the savesets on the tape are recyclable.
This gets into dependencies on other savesets and other issues that have
been discussed on this list in the past...
You can check the archives.

Also, if the tape stays in the same pool, as the savesets expire, new
savesets will append.

If all of the savesets have expired on the tape, the tape is marked
recyclable.  It can now be relabled and used in other pools if that option
is selected, or appended to if it stays in the same pool.

So... if it remains in the same pool it will be appendable, if it is moved
to a new pool it will be overwritten.

**** Anyone, please correct me if I am wrong!






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                    respond to Vince
                    Howard





Marc,

I accept everything you say.  However, what I'm interested in is whether
using the recycle option will guarantee that the tape will be overwritten,
not just seen as appendable by NetWorker? i.e. if I have a jukebox full of
'full' tapes will the recycle option force them to be overwritten?


Best regards,

Vince
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