sorry, some of us are spoilt and have 20 or more import/export slots....

doing what you did makes perfect sense, although you might want to consider 
using auto media management and then you won't have the need to pre-label all 
the tapes...




-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Russell [mailto:lnxgeek AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: Saturday, 4 February 2006 2:51 PM
To: Peter Viertel
Cc: Legato NetWorker discussion
Subject: Re: [Networker] Changing the tapes, use mmlocate ?


Peter Viertel wrote:
> when you use nsrjb -w to 'withdraw' the tapes from the jukebox  the location 
> will be blanked.   that is enough to stop them being requested for  
> backups... but you should mark them all as full, and manual recycle to avoid 
> any of them being written to while in the library for restores.   also 
> nothing wrong with putting the write-protect tabs on just to make sure....  
> (so long as you have version 7 at least...).
> 

Oops. I didn't do that :) Looks like -w will move one tape at a time to 
the mail slot on my jukebox. That's grand but I wasn't about to do that 
for all 58 tapes. Instead I unlocked the magazine doors to the jukebox 
and replaces all tape magazines in one shot. Afterwards I used nsrjb -I 
to have Networker inventory the jukebox before running nsrjb -L to label 
the new tapes.

All though I don't see how I don't think what I did was 'wrong'. Might 
not have been a 'best practice' though! :)

-- 
Scott Russell <lnxgeek AT us.ibm DOT com>
IBM Linux Technology Center System Admin


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