Hi,
Yes, that's exactly the feature i need. I'll put it in as a feature
request, and I think i'll do some manual purges maybe monthly for anything
over it's retention cycle period.
Thank you.
Dermot.
On 30 March 2010 16:03, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I must be missing something here. Every day we take out the tape that was
> > used the night before, and put it in a safe (in case the comms rooms is
> ever
> > inaccessible). We then look for a tape from the scratch pool to put into
> > the empty slot. This is fine, except that the scratch pool is not being
> > replenished.
>
> I know. My requirements are different. No safe at the moment..
>
> > You say you pick the replacement tapes from the oldest or new volumes.
> Do
> > you have to manually purge the oldest tapes before you can put them in
> the
> > drive? Do you use retention periods at all, or just cycle them yourself?
> > I'm curious if your method could solve my problem.
>
> Yes I use retention periods but only 1 pool recycles. The rest are
> archive that are run from manual jobs. Anyways in this situation I try
> to make sure that the pool that recycles always has old tapes in the
> changer so that automatic recycling will work. I know your situation
> is more complicated.
>
> You may want to submit a feature request. This should not be difficult
> to implement. Basically implement an option to disable the only purge
> volumes when needed concept.
>
> John
>
>
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