Hi Garcia

    Tapes are re-used by re-labeling them into a media pool manually or 
automatically by the software. tapes are re-used only when all the savesets it 
contains are marked recyclable, ie. when the retention period for those 
savesets gets over and all the child savesets that depend on them are also 
marked recyclable. 

   a tape that's marked 100% will still have some space left in it and the 
software will pick up from there during the next backup until that tape is 
filled. at this point, the tape will be marked "full" and the "appendable" will 
disappear. 

         it doesn't matter whether the tape is at 10 % or 50 % or full, the 
tape is re-used automatically (if so configured) once its savesets are 
recyclable. Manually re-using the tape should be done with caution.

regards
opopanax



Garcia wrote:
> Totally new to Legato Networker (7.4.4) and need to know how to make some 
> tapes re-usable for backups. Tapes appear marked as appendable but the % Used 
> still 100%, Is the backup job going to re-use these tapes or do I have to 
> change something here in order to re-use them?? Step by step will be nice for 
> this newbie . .  Hoping this is an easy one for all the experts in this cool 
> forum. 
> Thanks for your help. [Question]


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