If you run bplabel on the tape a second time, you won't be able to import 
SQUAT from the tape.

At 02:56 PM 6/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:08:03PM -0700, Jeff Kennedy wrote:
>
>Jeff,
>
>NetBackup doesn't allow you to do that.
>
>On the other hand if BudTool doesn't allow you to
>turn this feature off it might violate your corporate's policy.
>Some policies require to destroy your backups after some
>period of time: mail, HR records.
>
>NetBackup doesn't solve this problem either. Nothing can
>stop me to import data from tapes and get old data back.
>
>
> > I am wondering about the way images are expired and what my options
> > are.  Currently I have my expiration for all images set to 6 weeks,
> > which means every 6 weeks the image database info is purged and that
> > tape is now ready to be re-used, correct?  I think it is so I'll
> > continue on that assumption.
> >
> > What I would like to see is what was available in BudTool.  You could
> > set the time that the image was not over-writable, say 6 weeks, but the
> > image data would stay in the database until it was actually
> > overwritten.  So, I could set an image to be locked for 6 weeks, but if
> > the tape had not been written to, and it was week 8, you could still
> > browse the image data.
> >
> > Does such an option exist in NetBackup?
> >
> > Thanks.
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