You can always manually recycle a tape, but you have to make sure that's
what you really want.
Not sure what the command line version is, but if you go into Networker
admin, look at the volumes, you can right click, then chose "mode" and
then "recyclable". That will make your tape immediately available.
Again, you really want to make sure that's what you want.
It sounds like your retention policy is not set right on each client.
Check to see if it's set to 2 months, and not 2 years.
David M. Browning Jr.
LSUHSC Enterprise Network Operations/Help Desk
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Joe Lyons
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:34 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Tape Expiration/Retention
Hi,
A very simple question I am sure.
I have a simple three month backup policy running over three tape sets
Set 'A'
Set 'B'
Set 'C'
So if this were Apr, then tape set 'A' would be March, 'B' April, 'C'
May.
I would like to make sure that these tape sets have a two month
rentention
period meaning that I can re-use tape set 'A' when i get to the end of
tape set 'C' (May's Tapes).
However my tape set 'A' seems to have a two year expiry time on them, so
the backups fail because it cannot find available media. How do I
manually set these tapes to have expired so that they can be overwritten
?
Any help would be gratefully received as I am two days into what should
be
my 'A' set of tapes (but is still 'C'!)
Thanks !
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