Tape Erase Question

[kowboy]

Problem: Erasing copied tapes (that are not in database) with same names as originals removes all orignal tape information from the database.

Anyone know how to erase a tape in ArcServe without the tape information being automatically removed from the database? Is this an option by chance?

 

[wirk]

Use "Quick Erase", The history of the media is still available to ARCserve for tracking purposes if this is what you mean by tape information.

 

[kowboy]

Thanks for the response. A quick erase also "cleaned" the database of the media information. I'm going to format the destination tapes with different names and see if that works.

 

[davidmichel]

Tapecopy -a
Using the append option with tapecopy the target tape can have a different name and so erasing one will not affect the other.