Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk> wrote on 09/30/2008 
06:11:33 
PM:

> 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?

I ask, because I had a tape that was close to 3 months old, that have not 
gone into recycle mode. I didn't think to check to see if there were 
savesets on that tape that depended on other savesets not expiring (I 
doubt it, as any "related" savesets should also have expired; it was a 
"daily" tape, so if there were any savesets on that tape that depeended on 
another tape, the other tape should also have been a "daily" tape, and 
expired, too). However, I've now manually re-labeled that particular tape, 
so I can't check anymore.

I'll see if I can put another "full" tape aside, when I next see one.

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