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[Veritas-bu] Bad tapes how do you track?

2006-10-05 10:16:49
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Bad tapes how do you track?
From: simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net (WEAVER, Simon)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:16:49 +0100
Peter
The only thing I was not sure about, was moving "live" media with a
retention period into another Volume Pool; thought you got a message about
cannot deassign media from Volume Pool or something like this :-)

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Simon Weaver
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From: Peter DrakeUnderkoffler [mailto:pcd at xinupro.com] 
Sent: 05 October 2006 15:13
To: Hindle, Greg
Cc: NB List Mail
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bad tapes how do you track?


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Why not use a different volume group for those media?  Then you can always
perform a search (at least within volume manager) for  media in the
"bad_media_on_shelf" volume group, or something like that.

Thanks
Peter

Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
Xinupro, LLC
617-834-2352



Hindle, Greg wrote:
> 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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