Isn't there a flag that says "once this tape has been written to, don't 
write to it anymore?"

At 10:29 PM 3/4/2001 -0600, Rob Worman wrote:
>At 5:33 PM -0500 3/4/01, Ryn wrote:
> >Hello folks,
> >
> >We just purchased a Mammoth II and want to backup several Solaris/HP clients
> >with it. How
> >do you setup Netbackup when you are using a single tape daily? I have been
> >parsing the -bu
> >archives and the netbackup site for a configuration similar to this. I have
> >never setup netbackup
> >in this type of configuration before.
> >
> >Thanks for any info/docs.
>
>
>Hi Ryn-
>
>Well if I read your question right, you just want to make sure that all of 
>your backed up systems have their data written onto the same single tape?
>
>That's certainly simple enough to do: just define that tape, and no other 
>tape, in the media management GUI.  The risk is that you will eventually 
>run out of space on that single tape!  (unless you are retaining your 
>backups for a very short time?)
>
>If this isn't the answer you are looking for, please expand on your 
>original question a bit.
>
>rob
>
>
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