Hi all! I just had to delete a tape with discarddata=yes because an audit wasn't able to fix the volume. I witnessed something unexpected: as soon as you delete a volume, it immediately becomes scratch and it is being relabeled (because of VTL requirements). This means that if you accidently delete a volume and you want to recover it, let's say one day later, by restoring the database to a point before the deletion, chances are great the tape was already reused and overwritten. In fact, I think the relabel process itself will probably render the data unrecoverable. Shouldn't a delete volume make a volume pending instead of scratch? Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage Engineering ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message.
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