Dag, can you point me to that documentation?

I'm seeing a different behaviour, so I'd like to check to make sure.

/tony




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On 10/31/2012 07:59 PM, Dag Nygren wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2012 15:26:21 Tony Albers wrote:
>
>>> Is the behaviour on a VTL really different than in a normal jukebox on this 
>>> one, Tony?
>>> Cannot find anything in my docus on that and normally Networker always
>>> prefers recyclable tapes to unlabeled ones.
>>>
>>
>> No, it's exactly the same, NW always uses an unlabeled tape before
>> recycling a tape. That's just NW's way of trying to preserve data you
>> might want to use even though you've let it expire.
>
> Nope, he is not.
> An unlabeled tape is the last one in the flowchart. And only iff "auto media 
> management" is enabled.
>
> The selection steps for a backup are:
>
> 1. Appendable mounted tape in required Pool
> 2. Appendable unmounted tape in required Pool
> 3. Recyclable tape in required Pool
> 4. Recyclable tape in other Pool (with suitable "Recycle to" and "Recycle 
> from" settings)
> 5. Unlabeled tape if "Auto media management" is turned on
>
> Haven't tested all of those, but this is what the documentation says.
>
> And the point 5 is definitely last.
> Just thought that it for some reason might behave differently on VTL as the 
> "Virtual" also triggers
> other different behaviour.
>
> Best
> Dag
>