ADSM-L

Re: LABEL LIBV versus DSMLABEL

1999-02-02 16:26:09
Subject: Re: LABEL LIBV versus DSMLABEL
From: "Kelly J. Lipp" <lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:26:09 -0700
Do you have two ADSM servers?  If yes, your label command overwrote data
from the other server.  Oops, but auf wiedersehen to that data!  Hopefully
that tape was just in a volume history record and not really in a pool.  If
this is the case, the tape might have been a database backup tape and
perhaps you don't care as much.

One wants to be careful when labeling tapes.  If a new label is written on
a tape, the old stuff is all gone.  Forever.  (Well, not forever.  You
could call one of the those data retrieval companies, but the cost might be
prohibitive!)

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
www.storsol.com
lipp AT storsol DOT com
(719)531-5926