On Friday 02 November 2012 15:25:11 Tony Albers wrote:
> Dag, can you point me to that documentation?
>
> I'm seeing a different behaviour, so I'd like to check to make sure.
Hi again,
sorry for the late answer. Have been a bit busy.
The "documentation" I was talking about is the in the class material of the
offcial training for Networker I am teaching. The slide has been there for some
years and
it might well reflect old behaviour...
Would be nice to get it confirmed/revised by someone from engineering.
It needs to be fixed in case it is wrong!
Best
Dag
> On 10/31/2012 07:59 PM, Dag Nygren wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2012 15:26:21 Tony Albers wrote:
> >
> >>> Is the behaviour on a VTL really different than in a normal jukebox on
> >>> this one, Tony?
> >>> Cannot find anything in my docus on that and normally Networker always
> >>> prefers recyclable tapes to unlabeled ones.
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, it's exactly the same, NW always uses an unlabeled tape before
> >> recycling a tape. That's just NW's way of trying to preserve data you
> >> might want to use even though you've let it expire.
> >
> > Nope, he is not.
> > An unlabeled tape is the last one in the flowchart. And only iff "auto
> > media management" is enabled.
> >
> > The selection steps for a backup are:
> >
> > 1. Appendable mounted tape in required Pool
> > 2. Appendable unmounted tape in required Pool
> > 3. Recyclable tape in required Pool
> > 4. Recyclable tape in other Pool (with suitable "Recycle to" and "Recycle
> > from" settings)
> > 5. Unlabeled tape if "Auto media management" is turned on
> >
> > Haven't tested all of those, but this is what the documentation says.
> >
> > And the point 5 is definitely last.
> > Just thought that it for some reason might behave differently on VTL as the
> > "Virtual" also triggers
> > other different behaviour.
> >
> > Best
> > Dag
> >
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