I have many sites that have no IT personnel.  Usually a business person
(or sometimes a guard) physically changes the tape.   I have a Windows
scheduled job to do a nsrmm -u after they are scheduled to change it,
and since I have automedia manage on, the -u just re-reads the label.  

Now the -u physically ejects the tape from the drive, and the backups
fail.   Now I have to change the jobs to run before they change it,
and/or retrain all of my users.





David L. King

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Davina Treiber
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:14 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Stand Alone Tape Drive Unmounting

King, David - Eastman wrote:
> I just found out from Legato that, starting with version 7,  an
Unmount
> command on a single tape drive actually ejects the tape.   They told
me
> this in response to a case.
> 
> This has cause me a great deal of angst, and now I'm faced with 
> retraining dozens of end users!
> 
> I am upset!.    I've sent my concerns to my Legato rep.      
> 
> Why is Legato changing things like this?   How can I reread a tape
> already in the drive?  How can I change the tape mode with it mounted?
> 

What are you saying here? The nsrmm command always had two modes of
unmounting:
"nsrmm -u" to just unmount, or
"nsrmm -j" to unmount and eject.
Have they changed this (that would be really bad IMO), or have they
changed the GUI to do a "nsrmm -j" rather than a "nsrmm -u" ?

I agree that they probably shouldn't change things such as this, but
what is it that causes you such a problem? How do your users use
NetWorker that means this is a problem? Give us some more details and
perhaps we can collectively come up with an answer.

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