veritas backup probs

[pickman]

Hi Guys,

 

Using Veritas backup 9.1 on all my servers. Having few problems with one of my backups. It keeps telling me that the tapes are not overwritable and I have managed to track the problem down to the overwrite date on each backup is now set to 31st dec 1999. If I format the tape on anotherdrive I can backup fine but I want to be able to change that date..

 

Cheers

 

Matt

[indiegirl]

Hi Matt (another local!)

 

I'm on 10.0 here so I don't know if I can be of much help... it appears that in 10 you can change / edit the Media Set properties that the tapes belong to.

 

I can't remember 9 very well, but could you not create a new media set with a different overwrite date (or no overwrite date at all) and put the tapes into that?

 

Of course, I am probably barking completely up the wrong tree here....

 

Zoe

[SpuffMonkey]

I think the overwrite dates are ignored if you drag them into the Scratch media pool (I think)