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Re: [Networker] Tape Positioning by Record is Disabled on AIT Drives??????

2003-12-17 10:00:15
Subject: Re: [Networker] Tape Positioning by Record is Disabled on AIT Drives??????
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:00:08 -0500
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Matt Temple wrote:
>
>Two items --
>
>        1. Is there something wrong here?   We know there are people from
>Legato who read this list who could be providing definitive answers
>without this turning into a research project!   (Maybe I"m just being
>obtuse, wouldn't be the first time.)

A definitive answer would be nice.

>        2. When you "physicially overwrite" the label, do you mean
>that you delete the volume from the database or do you overwrite the
>label with some mt command.   It's certainly clear that recycling and
>relabeling (from Networker's point of view) behave differently.   But
>how could Networker give a new volume label (e.g. linux.0001 becomes
>linux.100) without overwriting the label.   (Of course, I guess there's
>no guarantee that the Solaris and Linux servers behave the same either.)

What I do is delete the volume from the media database. I then place the
volume in a tape drive and rewind it, then tar a small file to it, rewind
it, make sure the file was indeed tarred to it, then I unload it. Once
that's done, I either allow auto-media management to label the tape or I
label it myself with "nsrjb -L" if I want it to go into a specific tape
pool.

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