Overwrite Protection removal 2

[mtnguy]

Ok, I give up. How do I remove the overwrite protection from the tapes. I have several tapes with the overwrite protect set to infinate and now they are useless. They are DLT tapes and are not cheap. I would like to be able to reuse them. I am using BE for 2000 ver 8.6. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Dave

 

[deklin]

I was wondering the same thing Deklin

 

[Marverick]

Assuming that you do not need to restore the data off of these tapes?
The easist way to handle the overwrite protection is just to run a quick erase. The Quick erase will overwrite the tape header and place the media back in the scratch media.

Once the tape is back in the SCARTCH media set, it can be reallocated to your default Media Set 1 or any of your predefined media sets.

I would recommed rechecking the overwrite protection on your media sets. The default overwrite protection for Media Set 1 is set to "Infinite - Dont allow overwrite"

M

 

[Qdog]

All jobs target a particular media set. When you move a media (tape) to a media set, the media inherits whatever overwrite protection and append period settings on the media set. Right click your media set and go to Properties. What are the OW and append period settings? Next, make sure the backup job is targeting the correct media set. On the General tab in Backup Job Properties look for the Destination Media set. Finally, remember that if you have set Tools|Options|Media Overwrite to overwrite Scratch media before overwriting Recyclable media (the default), the overwrite job will look for Scratch media first. If BE cannot find any overwritable media in Scratch then it looks in the media set it is targeting for an overwritable media (ie. media where the overwrite protection has expired). If it cannot find any overwritable media there, then it prompts you "Please insert overwritable media".
An append job will look to the targeted media set for an appendable media. If BE cannot find appendable media in the targeted media set, the job turns into an overwrite job and follows the rules of an overwrite job as outlined above. In a loader if you want to be absolutely sure that a particular job is going to pull a particular tape, partition your slots, follow instructions in the following technote:

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/206843.htm

You can then target a partition as you would a device. The slot partition is a virtual device.
Good luck!