I'd suggest checking out the section on "How NetBackup Uses Media in 
Standalone Drives" in the NBU SAG.

For reference, the 4.5 NBU UNIX SAG has this topic on page 793.

HTH
-Tim

On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Zermeno, Brandon ((Contractor)) wrote:

> Well the problem is that I don't know what tape they are putting in the
> drive or even how they are labeled. Veritas has over 50 media id's
> available in it. I was hoping for something that involves less
> maintenance on my part.
> Usually they replace the tape on Wednesday or Thursday for the Full
> during the weekend, then append to the tape during the week with the
> incremental.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Wayne T
> Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:28 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Stand-alone drives
>
> If NetBackup is trying to write to tape #6, then #6 is not full and 
> it's
>
> trying to append to the data already on the tape.
>
> If you wish to make a tape unavailable for writing until its data
> expires, "suspend" it with the bpmedia command.
>
> cheers, wayne
>
> Zermeno, Brandon (Contractor) wrote, in part,  on 1/12/2005 10:13 AM:
>
>> I have several stand alone, non-barcode reading, tape drives. They run
>
>> on Win 2k, NBU 4.5fp7. Right now tape #2 is in the drive, when the
>> backup starts it is looking for #6. Now tape #6 is not expired and can
>
>> not be written over, Tape #2 IS expired. Why is it looking for that
>> specific tape id? How can I circumvent this? The units in question are
>
>> overseas and there is quite the language barrier, So I cant really ask
>
>> them to keep changing out tapes every time the backup runs.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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