Ok, let me test and get back to you. I have a small jukebox here that I 
can use.

/tony


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On 10/26/2012 02:07 PM, Francis Swasey wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  My experience with nsrjb -II (granted this is 
> from four years ago when I was forced into recreating this jukebox) is that 
> when the jukebox is first created, the -II is demoted to -I, and all the 
> tapes have to be loaded into drives and checked.  If that behavior is no 
> longer true, I'd love to know that.
>
> -- Frank
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2012, at 8:03 AM, Tony Albers <Tony.Albers AT PROACT DOT DK> wrote:
>
>> Suggestion: nsrjb -II  followed by nsrjb -I -S slots that couldn't be
>> verified just by their barcode.
>>
>> /tony
>>
>>
>> Tony Albers  - Technical Consultant  -  Proact Systems A/S
>> Tel: +45 7010 1132 - Mobile: +45 2210 5208 - Fax: +45 7010 1142
>> toal AT proact DOT dk  www.proact.dk - We secure mission-critical 
>> information -
>>
>> On 10/26/2012 01:18 PM, Francis Swasey wrote:
>>> On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:08 AM, Riku Valli <riku.valli AT UTA DOT FI> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I used  persistent names at my Redhat box and 7.6.3 with NMC. You can
>>>> made jukebox and tape-devices very easily with persistent names. It's
>>>> that simple and quickly at when my RedHat lost devices and i must
>>>> recreate them i used NMC for it. Persistent names are mandatory for
>>>> Linux or you lost devices at every boot.
>>>
>>> In RHEL5, I developed the udev rules that I posted last night because the 
>>> tape drives were moving around.  It was RHEL6 that started initializing the 
>>> HBA's in random order and actually caused the issue of the scsi host number 
>>> of the HBA that is attached to the control port of the jukebox changing 
>>> almost every reboot.
>>>
>>> I also stated in my first message that this jukebox was created (via 
>>> jbconfig) back in 2008 and the NetWorker configuration has come along with 
>>> me from RHEL4 and NetWorker 7.3 all the way to RHEL6 and NetWorker 7.6.4 
>>> (It's also converted from 32-bit to 64-bit OS's in that time).  The reason 
>>> I can't just delete the jukebox and create it again through NMC is because 
>>> of the multiple days it would take to run the inventory of the 1400 tapes 
>>> in the thing.
>>>
>>> I keep trying to get a real test environment with a small jukebox so I can 
>>> experiment with this stuff.  However, so far I have not been able to shake 
>>> the necessary money loose.  Therefore, I am very thankful for the existence 
>>> of this mailinglist and the help that everyone here is giving to all of us.
>>>
>>> -- Frank
>>>
>