Hi all,
I have seen this behaviour too.
Our set-up has one single DLT7000 drive in addition to an 8-slot jukebox.
If I change the mode of a volume to recyclable, NetWorker treats it in one of
two ways:
1. If the volume is in a jukebox slot, it will be selected, recycled, and used
by NetWorker
when required.
2. If the volume is in the lone DLT7000 drive, once I have changed its mode to
recyclable, I then have to mount it manually - but this doesn't force NetWorker
to recycle
the tape, so it mounts Read Only.
I've yet to figure out how to _actually_ recycle a volume manually, rather than
simply
marking it as recyclable, which is what I need to do in the case of the lone
DLT.
Does this help ?
Regards,
Matthew
> -------Original message-------
> From Teresa Biehler <tpbsys AT RIT DOT EDU>
> Date 26/07/2002 19:57:41
>
> The tape pool being used for the test has three tapes - 2 that are
> manually recyclable and the one that I'm trying to get Networker to
> automatically recycle. When I start a backup, Networker just waits
> saying that it needs a tape from the Test pool.
>
> I CAN get Networker to mark the tape full but not readonly. The problem
> is that when it's marked as full, it's also marked as manually
> recyclable. When I change it to auto recycle, the readonly attribute is
> set.
>
> So, I've successfully changed all the savesets to be recyclable, but the
> volume still is not recycling. Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
> Teresa
>
>
> Teresa Biehler wrote:
> >
> > Yes, but while it is readonly, Networker will not relabel the tape for
> > use. Or at least that's what appears to be happening.
> >
> > By the way, I also ran a full backup on the test clients to another tape
> > pool. So, there should be no other backups that do (or can) depend on
> > the test backup.
> >
> > Any ideas why I can't get the volume to be recyclable without the
> > readonly attribute?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Teresa
> >
> > Bokkelkamp Ernst wrote:
> > >
> > > That is normal. The tape is readable until Networker decides to relabel.
> > > (sound logic to me).
> > > A relabel will be done when Network decides to use the tape.
> > >
> > > Bye
> > > Ernie
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Teresa Biehler [mailto:tpbsys AT RIT DOT EDU]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:17 PM
> > > To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> > > Subject: [Networker] tape modes
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We're trying to make the transition from having our tapes be manually
> > > recyclable to having them autorecycle. I'm trying to do the following
> > > test:
> > >
> > > 1) run a backup to a test pool
> > > 2) mark the volume as full
> > > 3) mark the volume as recyclable
> > > 4) run another backup to the test pool
> > >
> > > If all goes right, in step 4 the test tape will be relabeled and used
> > > for the 2nd backup.
> > >
> > > When I mark the volume as recyclable (step 3), it automatically marks
> > > the volume readonly. Anyone know why?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Teresa
> > >
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