Hello All,
I have a question concerning LTO tape writes that I need
some clarity about.
Scenario:
If you have a Retention of 5 weeks for a policy and you
write a job the first day which gives the
Images 5 weeks until expiration. When you write to that tape
again on week 2, week 3 … etc.
My question are
1) Will each week of writes have a separate 5 week retention?
2) Can the tape be written to again (over week 1 space on
tape) by week 6 or will something else happen?
3) When the time is unassigned I am assuming that is all
backup images expiring. Will the tape be written to as
long as it is in a Library or drive and not write protected
.. every time a segment of images expire on the tape?
4) When that happens how does the time assigned change? Will
it keep the initial time assigned or change to the
Latest time assigned image?
LTO MEDIA TAPE USAGE
| Week 1, Write job | Week
2, Write job | Week 3, write job
| Week 4, write job | Week 5,
write job
Any other information is appreciated concerning how this
works.
Thanks
-T