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ARCserve 11.1 Tape Names

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Stat1c

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Jun 10, 2003
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Hi, Can someone tell me what the A stands for on the media name. For example A-TAPEDATE-10:00

I know that W = Weekly, F=Full but what is A=

Get Fat Up!
 
The A stands for Append. It is used when you set up GFS rotation jobs with 'append media' selected underneath 'enable GFS' in the schedular tab.
With this option selected ARCserve will try to fill up all tape cartridges to the max by appending all sessions to the same tape set.

Hope I'm clear

regards

 
thanks cyklops i thought it might be that.

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