In regard to: [Networker] savegroup start on a new tape, Ba Cham said (at...:

>I have a savegroup named full.  It takes little less than a DLT tape to
>backup the full each time.
>Can I force the save group to use a new tape each time it starts, rather
>than continue the existing tape till full and start another tape.
>This way if I recycle the tape,  I know what I am recycle.  How can I
>achive this.

I'm not aware of any automatic way to do this within NetWorker.

If you're comfortable writing a script in a language like perl or even
Bourne shell, it would be relatively trivial to accomplish this,
though.

Your script needs to use the `mminfo' command to find all tapes (or
perhaps all "recent" tapes) that contain only full savesets, and then
your script must use the `nsrmm' command to make the tape manually
recycleable, and readonly.  Once you've done that, NetWorker will not try
write to that tape again.

Tim
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