I expected that, as it is only 1.  Just wanted to take a look at one before we 
make a decison.
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Subject: Re: [Networker] Problems re-labeling tapes after mmrecov

Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk> wrote on 07/03/2008 
10:48:56 
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> MIchael Leone wrote:
> 
> > I just find it weird that it only came 
> > up after a mmrecov, and it worked before the mmrecov (and in fact, was 

> > working at the time the mmrecov tape was made, 2 months ago).
> 
> That's not weird - that is exactly what I would expect. The media 
> database now has a different view of your tapes - one that no longer 
> corresponds to their actual contents.
> 
> It's when these errors come up and you HAVEN'T done an mmrecov that I 
> would say it is weird.
> 
> If your retention is 2 months I don't see why you would have wanted to 
> do an mmrecov from more than 2 months ago. 

I had data corruption from one month ago (June 2, according to the log). I 
had the April 28 tape here. I could have called in the bootstrap tape from 
some time period between April 28 and June 2, hoping that there was no 
corruption on that tape. The tapes would have been delivered on Monday 
(what with the holiday). So I used what I had on-hand ...

> The media database from two 
> months ago won't contain anything relevant to your current backups. It 

I know.

> would have been much more productive (and more likely to work) to just 
> scrub your media database and start from scratch. In this case I would 
> save as comprehensive a report of your current media DB, and quarantine 
> the existing tapes until they expire. You would need to run scanner to 
> recover any existing backups, but I guess you still would now anyway.

I rarely recover, so when it happens, I will scan them at that time. I 
thought about starting with clean database, but we went with this method.

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