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Re: [Networker] Recover/backup priority

2007-04-30 20:57:10
Subject: Re: [Networker] Recover/backup priority
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:56:53 -0400
On Apr 30, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Werth, Dave wrote:

When I restoring with tapes that Networker could potentially think of as candidates for writing I always flip the write lock out tab on the tape
so it is physically impossible to write to it (unless the mechanism in
the tape drive fails of course ;-)

I find it easier to simply make the tapes as read only in the NetWorker admin gui or via nsrmm. There are several benefits to doing this way instead of flipping the right protect tab on the physical tape medium. First, when you change the tape's write protect tab, NetWorker does not know anything about it, so it can still attempt to mount that tape for writing, although it will fail. Second, you have to go to your tape library, locate the physical tape, then make the change to the write protect tab. If you mark the tape as read only from within NetWorker, it will not even bother mounting the tape for write purposes and when the recover is done, all you need to do is reverse the command or make the change via the NetWorker Admin GUI from the comfort of wherever you may be at the time.

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