On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 10:42 +0000, Russell Howe wrote: > When it comes to marking tapes as Used or Full, there seem to be two > ways to do it currently: > > * Maximum Volume Jobs > * Volume Use Duration > > So, you can either say "23 hours after the first job which wrote to > this > tape {started,finished}, mark it as used" to get you a new tape every > day (I'm not sure which of those two options applies, but I guess it's > in TFM somewhere) > > Or, you can say "After <n> jobs have been written to this tape, close > it > off/mark it used"
Ahhh....and this means after Max Retention passes, the tapes get flagged "recycle" and so there's always one tape marked recycle/append and the rest are marked "used"? This is definately good material for the "Backup Strategy" chapter in the documentation. ~lava > > The latter is what I do. I run 10 jobs every night, most of them on the > same schedule, so they start at the same time, although they don't run
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