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One other aspect, next to listing tapes are flagged full but that hold
significantly less data than they should like the script below, I also
list any suspect saveset that has occurred

mminfo -xc, -q"pool=$POOL,!ssrecycle,suspect"
- -r"ssid,cloneid,name,client,level,....."

and as querying suspect is not possible on cloned savesets someting like
the script below which uses awk to list any saveset where the cloneflag
is suspect.

mminfo -xc, -q"pool=$POOL" -r"ssid,cloneid,ssflags,clflags" |
awk -F, '
$4 ~ /s/ { print }
'

Suspect savesets should be investigated as the are often an indication
that someting went wrong during restore or that a san or scsi reset
occurred during backup.

one could call this "bad tape" in a broad sense of the word.

Maarten

Vernon Harris wrote:
> 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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