Denis

a tape marked as read-only is not strictly write-protected. It will be 
recycled as normal but won't be sent any new backups.

jee



On Thursday 08 September 2011 08:25:12 Denis wrote:
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> À: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Envoyé: Jeudi 8 Septembre 2011 03:55:52
> Objet: Re: [Networker] How to mark a tape full?
>
> George,
>
> Just curious, but why would you care if a tape at 100% of the estimated
> capacity is marked full or not? If you want to prevent a piece of tape
> media from being written to, you can always mark it as read only in NMC.
>
> To Stan :
>
> AFAIK, if you put a tape in 'read-only' mode, this tape will never be
> written unless you don't remove manually this status.
>
> Putting a tape in 'full' mode prevents it to be written, but permits this
> tape to be automatically recycled after having passed the retention time.
>
> Denis
>
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