Re: [Networker] duplicate name; pick new name or delete old one
2007-09-26 22:23:52
On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
Hi,
I think I have a problem.
I am getting repeated instances of:
duplicate name; pick new name or delete old one
For freshly recycled and relabeled volumes.
Should not be getting this for barcode managed media in an L700.
If I have a Pool of volumes that expire, when we relabel them and
then mark them as recyclable, usually the volume gets reused
successfully. Or if the volume doesn't need relabling and just
expires
and is then marked recyclable.
But lately, I am getting a spiral of doom situation where Legato
will select a free volume for use in a backup and then after
checking its label will print the dreaded:
duplicate name; pick new name or delete old one
And then it will proceed to grab the next free volume which will
possibly have the same issue. And so, if I am asleep,
in the middle of the night, the magical Legato spiral of doom will
manifest and the system will continuously load and unload
volumes forever, printing the dread mantra:
duplicate name; pick new name or delete old one
instead of doing real work (ie backing stuff up),
until I intervene, run "nsrmm -yd <volid>" on the offending tapes
and then manually relabel them.
This is an onerous task, given we have thousands of volumes and I
want a solution!
You might have a defective (or dirty bar code reader) in your tape
library and/or media database corruption. The media database
corruption can usually be resolved with "nsrim -X". You should check
the /nsr/logs/daemon.log too to see if it sheds any light on this
issue. Also, why are you relabeling and marking volumes as
recyclable? That makes no sense.
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