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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring tape media
  5. Managing volumes
  6. About recycling a volume
  7. Recycling a volume and using the existing media ID
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Recycling a volume and using the existing media ID

NetBackup recycles a volume and returns it to the volume rotation when the last valid image on the volume expires.

To recycle a volume that contains unexpired backup images, you must deassign the volume.

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