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Tape Remounts

You can choose whether CA VM:Backup should remount tapes to which the currently running backup or MPC job has already written. If your data center uses ACLs, you may want to prevent tape remounts. If the control setting on the ACL is set to AUTOMATIC, the ACL cannot remount a tape that has already been mounted in the currently running job. This may also be true if the control setting is set to SYSTEM and the software you use to mount tapes cannot handle this situation. Also, preventing tape remounts cuts down on the time it takes backup jobs to complete.

The backup job template file specifies whether to allow or reduce tape remounts in a backup job. For more information, see the OPTIONS record in the Template Programming Interface Guide or to the chapter "Managing Backup Job Template Files" in the Administration Guide.

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