> Yesterday I reloaded the previous week's volume which had a retention
> period of 5 days and the backup proceeded to append to the tape instead
> of overwriting it.

The problem is that a retention period only comes in to play if the
tape is already marked Full or Used. In your case you need to use
"Volume Use Duration" instead.

John

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