On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Conrad Macina wrote:

>>I see no
>>advantage to setting the write-protect tab on cartridges that NetWorker
>>uses
>
>You're right, as long as the tape isn't recyclable. The write protect tab
>prevents NetWorker from relabeling an expired tape; setting it to readonly
>doesn't. I would recommend doing both for normal restores, just in case
>someone forgets to remove the tape from the jukebox.

Activiating the write protect tab would cause SCSI errors, at least on the
equipment I have. Wouldn't changing recyclable tapes to be manually
recyclable via the GUI protect the data on those tapes without causing NSR
to needlessly mount them and than generate SCSI errors and still allow
their contents to be scanned in? Depending on your jukebox's device
settings, what you propose might also cause a tape drive to become
disabled if you have a very low error count setting.

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