Product

Platform

Server: Dell or Data General all; Client: PC or Macintosh

Operating system

Server: Windows NT or 2000; Client: Windows or Macintosh

Error

Symptoms

***Applies to Prinergy Connect, Powerpack, Direct, Satellite, depending on installed configuration.***

Preventing a tape from being written to.

Cause

Solution

To set a tape as read-only, do one of the following:

A. Disable the tape in Archiver Media Manager/RSM. However, to retrieve any job on this tape, the tape must be re-enabled for the retrieve to take effect.

For Prinergy 2.0 only:

B. Create a new media pool for the tape that requires read-only status, move the tape from its existing archive pool to the newly-created one. In this way, the archiver process plan does not contain the newly-created pool and won't ask for the tape to archive. Also, you may want to purge the job before moving the tape to avoid a purging failure or create another purge process plan to make it consistent with the newly-created media pool.

NOTE : Option B is a better way to prevent a tape being written to, as the tape is still enabled and in a separate pool for easy maintenance.

Permanent fix:

See also

Keywords

archiver FAQs

Technical contact(s)

Amy Chan

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Amy Chan

Date submitted