To be appendable, the tape must containg at least one active backup set.
if the rest of your tapes are new or newly labeled, they are not appendable.


Verify that retention on your media set(s) is correct, then change the job
to "Append, then Overwrite"

"Edward Moylum" wrote:
>
>I am running Version 8.5 with a 14 tape autoloader with 2 drives and using
>DLT type IV tapes. Media properties are defined as 1 week overwrite protection
>and infinite append. Backups are configured to append and terminate if
no
>appendable media is available.
>
>After about 4 days and only 96,213,260 bytes backed up, all jobs fail due
>to no appendable media. ??WHY??