On Thu, 1 May 2003 12:24:00 -0400, Marc Levitan <marc.levitan AT PFPC DOT COM>
wrote:

>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...

Correct.

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

No this does not happen. Expiring save sets do not clear any space on the
tape. How could this happen? NetWorker would have to cleverly interleave
the new data between the old data - highly risky.

>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!

Sadly you are - at least partly.

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