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Re: [Veritas-bu] Why netbackup auto overwrite?

2009-03-05 08:58:40
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Why netbackup auto overwrite?
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:46:48 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, KinAn wrote:

>
> I monitor, first Tape ID 000001 is blank.
> Day1: write 200G
> Day2: write 205G continue, now have 405G on tape
> .....
>
> Dayn: write xxxG continue, now have ~3TB on tape
>
> dayn +1, i see netbackup erase data in tape ID 00001 , then begin write :( 
> after first backup ID 000001 have ~300GB
>
> But still have many other blank tape on POOL
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What is the retention in the policy?  If you have it set to 1 week, then 
that would be the correct behavior.

Justin.
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