Hi,

I faced the same issue with LTO3 and LTO5 tapes conflict, the thing i have
done deleted the volume with nsrmm, rescan it with scanner,however as usual
it takes long time to scan the full tape  but i got the all the data back
into our networker index database.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:32 PM, bingo <networker-forum AT backupcentral DOT 
com>wrote:

> There is nothing wrong, except ...
>
> 8938:scanner: LTO Ultrium-4 tape 2223712427 for volume 001653L2 conflicts
> with existing media database entry for LTO Ultrium-2 tape 2223712427
>
> However, this is severe. NW obviously uses the same volid but treats the
> tape as LTO4 and consequently sees a volume conflict which is not
> resolveable.
>
> When we recently upgraded from LTO3 to LTO5, we did not have this problem.
> However, we are running 7.6.2.5.
>
> You have 3 options:
>  - Delete the existing media from the index and rescan it.
>  - And an old LTO2 drive (if still available, used as readonly) and try a
> scan/recover from here.
>  - Get in touch with EMC support - they should know the issue. If so they
> will most likely ask you to update.
>
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