I have a single protection group (File which consists of volumes, folders and systems states. Everything not a DB or email.) For the holidays I loaded up my tape drive with tapes. Some were expired, some were brand new. What happened was 5 of the 11 available tapes were used by the File PG, but not to their fullest ability. I think the largest of the jobs went to 15gb and only a handful of system states. What this means is now I'm out of allotted tapes AND since I can't erase an non-expired tape without stopping the protection group, I'm out of ways to back the upcoming week/month end.
So, two things. Why did it split up the one PG to 5 tapes? And is there a way to erase and mark as free recently used tapes? I don't mind losing one week in order to get a good end of month/year.
Thanks.
Ben Rollman