Look in your profiles.  On the tap named Eject, there is a box to check 
"suspend this session's media" and you can choose to do it immediately or at 
the time of the eject.

The reason that you suspend the media is in case you need to pull it back for a 
restore, new data does not get written to it.

If the media is expired, it won't be suspended any longer.  That is the 
difference between suspending media and freezing media.  If you freeze the 
media, it is frozen until you unfreeze it.  If you suspend the media, it is 
freed up as soon as it expires.

Bobby Williams



From: "Powers, Mike" <Mike.Powers at fnf.com>
Date: 2006/12/14 Thu PM 01:55:50 EST
To: <veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault suspending tapes

Recently when tapes come back from offsite, they are always coming back
as suspended. This is a problem for obvious reasons. Is anyone aware of
why this could be happening? 

My though was that some media on the tape is not expired, but would that
cause NB to suspend the tape? Thanks.

 

AIX 5.3 master NB 5.1 MP5

 

Mike Powers

Storage Management

Fidelity Information Services

Office: 312-696-2903

Cell: 312-446-6250

 

 




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