Good tip.  Thank you!   I guess I have been getting lucky as of late.  




Bryan 
Storage/Database Administrator

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From: Rick Brode [rick AT brodetraining DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:38 PM
To: EMC NetWorker discussion; Bowersock, Bryan
Subject: Re: [Networker] Precedence of use - expired or blank tape, in the same 
pool?

Actually, if a volume is marked "read-only" but is also recyclable,
NetWorker can automatically relabel that volume if it needs to (no
appendable volume available).  Instead of setting the volume to
"read-only", it is safer to mark it "manual recycle"; this keeps
NetWorker from ever deciding to relablel it on its own.

Rick


On 6/7/2012 10:05 AM, Bowersock, Bryan wrote:
> You could always set the tape volumes you don't want overwritten to a 
> "read-only" status - what I am unsure of is if Networker will still see the 
> data as expired and recycle it anyway.  I have to do that a lot as of late 
> because our offsite storage keeps sending back tapes that were sent just a 
> week or so before saying their retention period is up - our tape retention is 
> 6 months and tapes are returning in 2 weeks.  So, under media I will set the 
> tape volume to read-only and then add the tape volume to Networker's library, 
> and inventory the tape volume(s) so I can check the savesets just to be sure 
> they were sent back prematurely.  I'm always afraid Networker will grab one 
> by mistake, but it's nice to refresh my memory on how it checks for available 
> media again.  Perhaps I'm just overcautious...
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> Bryan
> Storage/Database Administrator
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