Hi,

A quick question regarding the (auto-)recycling of 'expired' media.

We have a situation where recycling is enabled for a particular backup group

(as far as I can tell, all the correct boxes are ticked), and have a number of tapes

which are part of that group that are now 'expired' and we are looking to recycle them,

but for some non-obvious reason, aren't being automatically re-used.

Below is an example of a couple of the tapes involved -

state volume                  written  (%)  expires     read mounts capacity volid      next type    flags

E            4026 GB full   expired    0 KB     4   2620 GB 7755914     254 LTO Ultrium-6

E            2400 GB  92%   expired   19 MB     4   2620 GB 2091676100  178 LTO Ultrium-6 r

When we mount one of these, 'nsrmm' reports it as 'write protected' (despite the physical tab being set for the opposite).

Unmounting, then using 'nsrmm -o' and setting various mode options manually seemingly hasn't helped.

Is there something else that needs to be done to enable this, or is is that maybe all the save sets are not

yet fully expired? (if yes, how can I better determine this??)

Thanks for any assistance!