Thanks, I'll give that a shot.!!!
--- Matthew Huff <mhuff AT OX DOT COM> wrote:
> Based on what Davina said, if you do a mminfo query
> like:
>
> mminfo -a -r
>
"volid,volume,written,pool,location,volaccess,volflags,type"
> -q
> '!volrecycle,full,written>0,written <200GB
>
> assuming that the normal uncompressed storage of
> your tape is 200GB, any
> tape marked as full and less than that amount could
> be considered "bad".
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
> Behalf Of Davina Treiber
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:55 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Listing bad tapes (CLI)
>
> Vernon Harris wrote:
> > Tapes that have write errors, are they marked as
> > unusable by the software??? Coming from the
> netbackup
> > world, tapes are marked as frozen if they are they
> > can't be written to.
>
> Tapes are marked full when errors occur. This does
> not prevent them from
>
> being recycled and used again in the future.
> NetWorker does not freeze
> tapes in the way NetBackup does.
>
> >
> > Also, is there a concept of scratch tapes. Where
> any
> > volume pool that needs a blank tape can go to the
> > scratch pool and automatically assign the tape to
> the
> > pool defined in the group???
>
> This is not something that is in the product by
> design, but it can
> easily be implemented. Create a pool called scratch,
> set the flag to
> allow tapes from the scratch pool to be recycled to
> other pools, and set
>
> all other pools to allow tapes to be recycled from
> other pools. Then
> label new tapes into the scratch pool and make them
> recyclable.
>
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