How to overwrite spanned tapes.

[wibbe]

Hi everyone,

I have a strange problem. I'm running windows 2000 and BE8.5 with a DLT4000 Tape Autoloader (7 slots).
Slot 1 and 2 is partission 1, Slot 3 and 4 is partission 2.
The tapes in slot 1 and 2 has a own mediaset (mediaset1).
The overwrite protection is set to 1 houre (partisional).
The append time is infinitive.

I have 2 jobs.
Job 1 makes a full backup on monday and is set to owerwrite.
Job 2 makes a incremental backup and append to the mediaset.

The first week is problem free, but the second week failes.
Job 1 owerwrites the first tape until its full. Then it loads the second tape, but it does not owerwrite it. It loads the first tape again and then fails.

The Second tape was NOT write protected.

How can I make it owerwrite the second tape too?

// Wibbe

 

[techwar]

This is how I get by job fails. I was getting a message to import tape if the backup went to a second tape. An alert would be displayed "Please import media". Well now all my scheduled jobs are shot no time left to run the other backups....anyway. I have gotten around this by inserting the new backup tapes into the tape library, do a inventory on the drive, import all tapes. This is the only way I have found to get around this type of behavior.

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