I have a IBM 3581 tape drive I have a volume pool of 3 tapes with a retention level of two weeks the the tape in the media pool reads 7/14/03 for the first tape 7/20/03 for the 2nd tape and 7/26/03 for the 3rd tape I usually get 4 or 5 days of backups on each tape the 3rd tape filled up last night but would not go back and try the first tape of 7/14/03 is there something else I have to do to expire the media so it will write to the tape again when the date is past 2 weeks.
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Theoritically the tape should expire after 2 weeks and be deassigned from the volume database. I have seen plenty of tapes that are expired but not deassigned from the volume database. (we're using Netbackup datacenter 3.4 on Solaris 8). I have also seen some tapes were used by more than one media server in a SSO environment.
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Chandu.
Please remeber one thing about expiration/retention etc ... If you have a tape that has a retention of 14 days and your schedules are set up to run in that time frame, and a tape is used say on a Friday night at 6:00 p.m. but the backup only finishes on the Saturday at 2:00 a.m. (For Example) then the image will expire in two weeks on the Saturday at 2:00 a.m. What I generally do is to set the retention 1 day less that required so if I use a tape every 14 days, then the retention is set to 13 days.
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