Need lots more details...

How many Drives do you have ??? Pools are you writing to ?

How many groups do you run , and do they overlap ???

How many clients are in your group or groups ?

What is the parallelism set to on the Server ? , and clients in the
group (default=4 I think), and Each tape drive also has a parallelism
setting , What is that set to ?
 
I can't believe you actually take tapes offsite that are not FULL or at
least have some data on them ?? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Ali
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:10 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Tapes are labelled but not used, 0% appendable
> 
> Hi NW Gurus,
> 
> We find a number of Tapes (5 to 10 each day) in the library 
> that are labelled by NW but never written to. We noticed this 
> recently and looks like this has been happenning for quite 
> sometime and we have been shipping 0% appendable tapes 
> offsite for 30 days upto 7 years  . (I recommend you should 
> also keep an eye on it).
> 
> has anyone seen this ? our group parallelism is set to 16 and 
> Tape drives are LTO2 in ADIC i2K library on a NW 7.3.3 
> running on Soalris 10 and another environment is Windows 2003 
> with same issue.
> 
> Any
> ideas
> 
> 
> 
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