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!

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