Basically that's the difference.  When a tape is frozen, after it
expires, it stays frozen and unavailable. (the data on the tape will
expire, don't freeze tapes to keep data around)  A suspended tape
becomes available for use again after the data expires.  Suspend tapes
that you don't want to write further data to for some administrative
reason.  When they expire, you can re-use them.  Freeze tapes that you
suspect have problems and you never want to write data to again. When
they expire, you can run some tests on them to see if they are really
bad.

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So it looks like the main difference is that a frozen tape never
expires.




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