Media will be available for reuse only when all the jobs on that media have been aged. However, if half the data on a given media is aged, then that media will remain unavailable for data protection operations until the remaining data on the media is aged. When all the data on the media is aged, the media will then be recycled to the associated scratch pool for future data protection operations.
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Media that has an active status is not recycled back to the scratch pool until the media has a non-active status.
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When the tape media is recycled and overwritten, the data that was originally written to it cannot be restored.