If the volume type preference is set to LTO2, this is what it will try to use
if a drive exists. It's up to the user to do the tape management to ensure
that enough media is available. I'd expect that if you disable the drive
within NetWorker that it will then label up the LTO1 media instead (not sure,
but that's what I'd expect). Currently, NetWorker sees that the preferred LTO2
mmd is available and idle, so it tries to use it despite the fact that there
are no media available for this drive.
Out of interest, what happens if you a) manually label an LTO1 volume for this
pool, b) set the LTO2 drive to service mode, c) disable the LTO2 drive? Just
to help me get a better idea about the way that the broker code works :)
Cheers,
Stuart.
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion on behalf of Olaf Zaplinski
Sent: Wed 19-Jul-06 10:28
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] expired tapes not relabeled
Hi all,
we have NW 7.2.2 and one L700 here with 3 LTO1- and 1 LTO2 drives. The LTO2
drive belongs to one pool only. We still have many LTO1 media that belong to
this pool, most of them are expired.
Today I ran a test: I removed all writable LTO2 media and started one
nsrstage process. Since then, NW sits there and refuses to relabel one LTO1
volume to proceed.
Is it because I set the pool's volume type preference to LTO2? If yes, why?
It is a preference, according to the 'field help' button (Windows GUI).
Olaf
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