Rick


On 6/7/2012 10:05 AM, Bowersock, Bryan wrote:

You could always set the tape volumes you don't want overwritten to a 
"read-only" status - what I am unsure of is if Networker will still see the 
data as expired and recycle it anyway.  I have to do that a lot as of late because our 
offsite storage keeps sending back tapes that were sent just a week or so before saying 
their retention period is up - our tape retention is 6 months and tapes are returning in 
2 weeks.  So, under media I will set the tape volume to read-only and then add the tape 
volume to Networker's library, and inventory the tape volume(s) so I can check the 
savesets just to be sure they were sent back prematurely.  I'm always afraid Networker 
will grab one by mistake, but it's nice to refresh my memory on how it checks for 
available media again.  Perhaps I'm just overcautious...




Bryan
Storage/Database Administrator