Greg
Well a couple of methods I have used (which some may feel is bad!)
 
1) Log details in Excel
2) FREEZE or SUSPEND the tape
 
In most cases, I have also moved the tapes into specific slots in the robot
that are not in use (ie: slots 150-170 contain suspect tapes).
 
Anyhow, just a thought..
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hindle, Greg [mailto:Greg.Hindle at constellation.com] 
Sent: 05 October 2006 14:15
To: NB List Mail
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Bad tapes how do you track?



Nb 5.0 mp4 Solaris 9 


Ok We from time to time get read / write errors on tapes. When this happens
we clean the drive and write protect the tape and put it on our bad tape
rack never to be used again except if a restore is needed (we try to restore
form it anyway). I want to somehow keep track of this tape in netbackup and
identify it as a bad tape. Does anyone have a way of doing this? I though of
editing the vault slot field and put like all 0000 or something like that
but this only works till someone takes the tape and puts it in our L700 and
forgets to take it out. Enterprise vault will re assign it a new slot and
then we would loose track of the tape. I just cannot think of a way to track
these tapes better other than a manual system. Any thoughts?


Greg 

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