Ok, move back the characters of the library to 6 and delete from netbackup all tapes that are at  the scratch pool and all tapes that you try to use during this period (like 000717L1). Be sour that no backups are written to the tapes you will delete. If you are not sour about the frozen tapes just remove them from the library.

 After you delete the tapes  rerun the inventory and be sour that you have tape ID 000717 and barcode 000717 (NOT with L1).

Well I thought that took care of the issue but there is still a problem.  I ran an inventory on my tapes after changing the Barcode Label Length to 6 and everything looked good.  I tried to run a duplication using the new library and tapes with the 6 character bar codes and it couldn’t find any media and gave me a 96 error.  Note, the tapes I’m trying to use are scratch tapes that from the old library that are cataloged in NetBackup.  Basically all that’s been done is the tape library has been changed along with the addition of a Data Domain VTL.   In trying to debug this, I changed the Barcode Label Length back to 8, reran the inventory, kicked off my dupe job and got the output below.  The D11230 is the source of the duplication and it says it is mounting 0717L1 which is the Media ID for barcode  000717L1  then saying it found 000717 in the drive.  The Media ID and barcode are getting shifted both ways, how do I get this to use only the leftmost 6 characters and recognize them when I kick off a job?  Anyone have any idea what’s going on and what I can do to take care of this????

01/06/2010 13:48:57 - begin Duplicate

01/06/2010 13:48:57 - requesting resource yos_sam1-hcart2-robot-tld-0

01/06/2010 13:48:57 - requesting resource D11230

01/06/2010 13:48:57 - reserving resource D11230

01/06/2010 13:48:58 - resource D11230 reserved

01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource  0717L1

01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource  HP.ULTRIUM2-SCSI.003

01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource  yos_sam1-hcart2-robot-tld-0

01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource  D11230

01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource  IBM.ULTRIUM-TD1.006

01/06/2010 13:49:05 - started process bptm (pid=25248)

01/06/2010 13:49:15 - started process bptm (pid=25394)

01/06/2010 13:49:17 - started process bptm (pid=25248)

01/06/2010 13:49:17 - mounting 0717L1

01/06/2010 13:49:18 - started process bptm (pid=25394)

01/06/2010 13:49:18 - mounting D11230

01/06/2010 13:49:29 - mounted D11230; mount time: 0:00:11

01/06/2010 13:49:29 - positioning D11230 to file 1

01/06/2010 13:49:29 - positioned D11230; position time: 0:00:00

01/06/2010 13:49:30 - begin reading

01/06/2010 13:50:11 - Error bptm (pid=25248) incorrect media found in drive index 14, expected 0717L1, found 000717, FREEZING 0717L1

01/06/2010 13:50:11 - current media 0717L1 complete, requesting next media Any

Thanks

This is because your old library was giving you only the first 6 characters of the barcode. All new libraries gives you all 8 barcode characters . To change this, go to your library GUI and logon as administrator.

Go to configuration -> system and change the value of “Barcode Label Length Reported To Host  from 8 to 6.

Be sure that “Barcode Label Alignment Reported To Host” is left.

If you do not want to change the library, you have to configure media ID generation and not the barcode rules. But you have to import all tapes with hand and right click them and select update barcode.

 stefanos

Our environment, NBU 6.5.4 running on HP-UX 11-31 with a Data Domain VTL and newly attached MSL6060 tape library that replaced a SureStore 20/700 library.  I don’t think we had any barcode rules set up for anything but cleaning cartridges when we were using the 20/700 library.  The physical barcodes on the tapes are for example 000001L1 and the last 2 characters were dropped leaving 000001 as the Media ID and Barcode.  Now that the MSL6060 library is connected when I do an inventory it gives me 0001L1 for a Media ID and 000001L1 for a Barcode.  I’m going through the manual and getting confused on how to accomplish dropping the last 2 characters (L1) and using only the first 6 (000001) for both Media ID and Barcode.  Can anyone let me know or at least point me in the right direction to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance…

Wayne BeDour

Unix System Administrator

PH: 248-447-1739

Internet: wbedour AT lear DOT com

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