On Thu, 1 May 2003, Vince Howard wrote:

>Marc,
>
>I accept everything you say.  However, what I'm interested in is whether
>using the recycle option will guarantee that the tape will be overwritten,
>not just seen as appendable by NetWorker? i.e. if I have a jukebox full of
>'full' tapes will the recycle option force them to be overwritten?

Yes, but the tapes need to be marked as recycled either automatically when
the retention period of all the tapes' savesets (and their dependences) is
met or when you manually mark the tapes recyclable. I believe auto-media
management also needs to be enabled in your tape library.

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