We have many branch offices with auxcopy jobs running regularly onto a local standalone tape drive.
As we don’t know exactly when someone is swapping the tape on site, the schedule runs continous every two hours.
This results in many jobs in waiting state with “Media is already assigned” messages which also appear in our Event reporting for these jobs every 5 minutes.
Besides the reporting I got told (and also verified) that the drive constantly ejects the tape and pulling it back every 5 minutes in which results in additional wear.
I was wondering if there is some option to just stop the job if there is a full tape already detected in the drive.
I tried out some options like “Do not attempt to load ejected media” or “check for media change in drive every X minutes” but nothing seems to impact this behaviour.
Is there something I am overlooking here?
