Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk> wrote on 10/01/2008 
10:34:15 
AM:

> MIchael Leone wrote:
> 
> > 
> > For the most part, this is a less-than-important issue for me, as it's 
not 
> > all that hard to mark a volume as recyclable. I already have a script 
that 
> > I can run that checks each library for tapes marked recycable, and 
then 
> > issues a re-label, by pool. Since I am pulling and adding tapes into 
the 
> > libraries every day anyway (usually only about 4 per library), marking 
a 
> > volume as recyclable is pretty quick. And then the script can be 
> > automated.
> 
> Hmm, not sure why you would need to do that. When it's recyclable 
> NetWorker can recycle it, so why do you need to?

I've noticed that non-full tapes do become recyclable (approximately) when 
they should, but the couple times I've bothered to look, the fulls were 
not. Hence this thread. As to why do it manually, this way I will know for 
sure that I have "empty" tapes to write on tonight ... When my tapess come 
back from offsite (after 2 calendar months), I re-insert them into the 
library. However, the calendar month doesn't always match up with the 
NetWorker "2 month" rentention policy, so the tapes are sometimes still 
"appendable" when I put them back in. Rather than chance NetWorker 
appending tonight's data to a almost-but-not-quite-yet expired saveset, I 
just re-label. This way I know for sure that the only savesets on that 
tape are tonight's.

> > Be more work to do the nsrim, and the mminfos. :-) Altho that can be 
> > scripted and scheduled, too.
> 
> That's not the idea. My suggestion of running mminfo was to find the 
> problem. It should not be something you need to do regularly, or from a 
> scheduled job. If tapes are not recycling when they should then you need 

> to find the errors in your NetWorker config and fix them. You should 
> certainly not be manually setting tapes to recyclable on a regular 
basis.
 
I'll keep an eye out for the next time I see a tape I think should be 
recyclable and isn't, and dig into it then.

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