[Networker] Why does NetWorker use a read-only drive for writing?

I have a tape device wherein I set "Read only" to Yes. The device isEnabled. Why does NetWorker still try to use the device for backups?

I came in this morning, and NetWorker was waiting for a writeable tapefor a given backup pool/group. The tape in question was loaded in thisdevice, and the tape is still appendable, but it obviously had set the'Write enabled' attribute for the volume to 'Yes'. That might make sensegiven that the device is read only, so I unmounted the tape andre-mounted it in one of the other drives and then the backups ran tothat tape and completed just fine.

My question is why would NetWorker have ever loaded this volume in adevice that was set to Read only? I thought any such device would onlybe used for recovers or maybe cloning when reading from the sourcevolume. There is no cloning, however, associated with the affected tapepool/group.

We're running 7.2.2 on a RedHat storage node. Primary server is 7.2.2 onSolaris. The device is in a library attached to the snode.


George

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