Given there is no barcode you would need to move it into a drive
manually. Then netbackup will read the label on tape and the
media should become available.

If I remember correctly you can use vmchange to move tapes around
in the library. To move it into a drive you may need to use
robtest.

You could overcome most of this if you had a corresponding
barcode label.

Regards
Peter Marelas


-----Original Message-----
From: dayal singh [mailto:dayalsd AT lycos DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 7:13 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'; Dong Wang
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] how to mount a tape and tell NetBackup to use
it for file restore


 I am also running into the similar problem. After loading the tape and
doing an inventory, still the restore waits forever. What I am doing is to
kill the restore and restart it. But someone on the list can share their
thoughts on fixing this problem

Dayal

--

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:42:55  
 Dong Wang wrote:
>I am practicing restoring files from offsited tapes. The following are the
>steps I took:
>
>1. the tape was ejected from the robot by using the xbpadm interface
(select
>the tape, then Actions->Eject)
>2. restore a file that is backed up on the ejected tape. Within the xbpadm
>interface, when checking the progress report, it shows:
>
>Sep 10 12:15:37 2001
>
>12:15:39 (1077.xxx) Restore job id 1077 will require 1 image.
>12:15:39 (1077.xxx) Media id A00035 is needed for the restore.
>
>12:15:47 (1077.001) Restoring from image created Sun Sep 09 00:08:14 2001
>12:15:49 (1077.001) INF - Waiting for mount of media id A00035 on server
>admin.
>12:15:50 (1077.001) INF - Media id A00035 is not in a robotic library;
>administrative interaction may be required to satisfy a mount request.
>
>3. Then I inserted the tape to the mail slot location of the magazine.
>
>4. Now how do I tell NetBackup that the tape with Media id A00035 is in the
>mail slot and mount it?
>(there is no barcode on the tape)
>
>Thanks a lot for your help.
>
>
>
>> Dong Wang
>> Grand Central Networks
>> dwang AT grandcentral DOT com
>> 
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