So, I have a single storage policy with a copy that has data aging (turned on) and basic retention after 1096 days, 1 cycle. The copy writes to tapes.
Based on this chart: Identifying Media Icons (commvault.com) the tapes are ageing and then being flagged as “Aged Media” and then eventually (I guess) “Aged Retired Media”. and it seems like from there, the tapes are not showing (in the individual tape status) they are unusable (full, broken, etc), just they seem to sit there and not be used any more, and they are empty (0 bytes showing, view→ contents = no contents shown).
I’ve never done it, but it looks like I can manually click on the tape and right click → options → mark media reuseable and it will… mark it as completely free and useable again (or does it still tie it to the storage policy that wrote to it)? I’m not sure if this is the “recommended” way to do it, or if there was a way to automatically flag these (like when aged makes it 0 bytes) so it makes it re-useable again when its empty.