I confirmed that the volid on the tape does not match what NetWorker has
in its database. Confirmed, as others have suggested, by running:

mminfo -s server -q 'volume=volume_name' -r 'volume,volid'

and then compared with info from: 'scanner -inv' <drive>

Guess I could have used '-m', which might have been much faster. Could
have killed it part way through, though, but let it run just for laughs.
Guess that settles that. Have some questions on some other problems but
will open a new posting for that.

Thanks to all.

George

Tim Mooney wrote:
>
> In regard to: [Networker] Can't mount volume -- not in media index?, 
> George...:
>
> >I have a volume (FUL649) that I can inventory just dandy. In fact, the
> >"volumes" listing under nwadmin shows several savesets on this tape, and
> >the tape is full. However, if I attempt to mount the tape, NetWorker
> >loads the tape but then generates the following:
> >
> >Verified label of FUL649 (NOT in media index)
> >
> >and then ejects the tape. If I run: mminfo -s server -q 'volume=FUL649'
> >everything shows up just fine, so seems it is in the media index?
> >
> >Any thoughts?
>
> Figure out the volid of the volume that *is* in the media database.  You
> can do this any number of ways, but the easiest is probably
>
>         mminfo -mav | grep 'FUL649'
>
> volid should be the 3rd column from the end (right after the capacity
> column, which probably has a unit of GB).
>
> Next, you need to find out what the volid is on the tape.  I'm not sure
> if there's an easier way to get this, but you should be able to load (but
> not mount) the tape, and then do a
>
>         scanner -nmv /path/to/loaded/device
>
> (note the -n, as in "no, don't really do anything, just show me what you
> would do").  One of the first things scanner should spit out is the
> volid it reads from the tape.
>
> Does it match what the media database says, for the "other" FUL649?
>
> My guess is it does not.
>
> Tim
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