Re: [Networker] how to prevent of label new tapes

As long as the tapes belong to the same group, then you shouldn't be
leaving half full tapes.  Networker will finish one tape before starting
with the next tape.  If you want to force the issue, you can always pull
all the other tapes out of the group, leaving the unfinished tape to be
written to, thus forcing the write to only that tape.

The only way I can think of to consolidate tapes, would be to clone all
the appropriate savesets to a new volume, then just recycle the old
volumes.

Adam 

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 2:11 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] how to prevent of label new tapes

Hi,
i want to withdraw full backup at weekend offsite. But I see that NSR
write full backup to new tapes, though another tapes from the same pool
are not already full. My questions:
1) how can I configure NSR take already writed tapes and make it full
before a new tape be labeled ?
2) how can I consolidate two or more not full tapes to write to another
tape to make it full ?

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