Hi Katerina,

1. Inset the media into your library and give it a "temporary" name.

2. run bpimmedia -mediaid <the temporary name>

This utility will scan the tape and list all of the images on it; it should
also tell you the RVSN as well.

Regards
Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: David Chapa 
Sent: 23 January 2003 15:52
To: Gary Losito
Cc: Katerina Giannakeli; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu;
nbu-lserv AT dsihost-srv01 DOT com
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: [NBUADV-L] Unknown Media ID...please HELP!


She's on NT/2000.

David

Quoting Gary Losito <gary AT losito DOT ws>:

> Katerina,
> 
> Try doing this:
> 
> First load the tape into the drive.  If it is a unix media server, type
"dd
> if=/dev/rmt/0 bs=1024 count=1 | strings" (note: for /dev/rmt, use the
correct
> tape device) and search for a label string of some sort.  This will give
you
> the header information on the tape which includes the RVSN.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Gary
> 
> 
> On 23 Jan 2003 09:45 EST you wrote:
> 
> > Greetings all,
> > 
> > I have the following problem.
> > I have a tape which contains a backup from October 2002, but I do not
> know
> > the media id of this tape.
> > To import the tape I need to know the media id.
> > 
> > I have tried allocated the tape to a slot with a different mediaid and
> > manually load it in a tape device, but when I open Device Monitor, there
> is
> > not displayed the RVSN...
> > 
> > Does anyone know how I can "extract" the media id from the tape?
> > 
> > please note I have NB 3.4(with all patches) installed.
> > 
> > This is really important and I would appreciate any help provided!!!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you for your time,
> > 
> > Kat
> > 
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