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Re: [Networker] Does a tape marked as "FULL" ever expire and become recycable?

2008-09-30 18:15:00
Subject: Re: [Networker] Does a tape marked as "FULL" ever expire and become recycable?
From: Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PEEVRO.CO DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:11:33 +0100
MIchael Leone wrote:
I'm wondering. If I have a tape that NetWorker has marked as "FULL" .. .will it ever expire? For example, if I have a browse/retention policy of 2 months. NW fills up a tape, and marks it as "FULL". 2 months from now, will that tape then become recycable, like other non-full tapes?

I've always just manually marked it as recyclable after the 2 month period, and then ran a script to re-label all recyclable tapes. Mostly because I thought that, being FULL, NetWorker would never use the tape again.

Yes? No? I'm being silly?


I am wondering why you would think this? Why would the fact that the tape is full have any bearing on it being recycled?

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