Hi all!
I just had to delete a tape with discarddata=yes because an audit wasn't able 
to fix the volume. I witnessed something unexpected: as soon as you delete a 
volume, it immediately becomes scratch and it is being relabeled (because of 
VTL requirements). This means that if you accidently delete a volume and you 
want to recover it, let's say one day later, by restoring the database to a 
point before the deletion, chances are great the tape was already reused and 
overwritten. In fact, I think the relabel process itself will probably render 
the data unrecoverable.
Shouldn't a delete volume make a volume pending instead of scratch?
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage Engineering
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