If you have updated a location with say "offsite -xxxx", and then put it
in the machine to inventory, it will force the verification.   We have
to run around and remove the offsite location when it's time to re-use
the tape.   Either that, or wait 30 minutes while the library loads and
unloads each tape.  

I've only seen 1 exception to that rule, and that is whenever we delete,
and then re-add our tape library (quite often under 7.4.4.).     

That's been my experience.   

David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Len Philpot
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:08 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Force Networker to trust barcode label?

This may be an old question, but is there any way to force Networker to
trust a barcode label and not actually load the tape to inventory it?

The reason I ask is that over the years of working with Networker, I've
seen it do both. What I mean is, if I add an existing (known, proper
pool,
etc.) tape to a library and then run "nsrjb -j library_name -I -S
slot_number" to inventory the tape, wometimes it's satisfied with what
it
reads from the barcode, but other times (more often) it actually loads
it
into a drive and checks it for sure. I've not seen any pattern and don't
recall seeing anything in the documentation about why it does one over
the
other.

Is there a way to force Networker to just trust the barcode? When adding
a
number of tapes it would speed things up considerably if so.

Thanks.

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