[Veritas-bu] Frozen tape characteristics?
2007-02-16 17:29:48
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[Veritas-bu] Frozen tape characteristics? |
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jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz) |
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Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:29:48 -0500 (EST) |
Thank you for everyone's input on this issue.
Much appreciated!
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Wayne T Smith wrote:
> Frozen tapes can still be read.
>
> For example, my Frozen tapes are still selected by Vault for copying.
> The "read" of data off the Frozen tape is a "restore" of sorts.
>
> Frozen is like Suspended (NetBackup will no longer write to it), except
> that it's "sticky" when the images on the tape expire.
>
> Vault, at least v5.1 uses "Suspend" to help manage its output tapes.
>
> cheers, wayne
>
> Justin Piszcz wrote, in part, on 2/16/2007 4:19 AM:
>> Quick frozen tape question,
>>
>> I need to re-visit the docs.
>>
>> When a tape is frozen, no more backups can be written to it.
>> When a tape is frozen and it is part of a restore, what happens?
>> It says the media is unavailable or does it try to do the restore?
>>
>> Justin.
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