Jim,
Does your recyclable volume is set manually or it has expired from the
period of the retention policy ?
Because, I have the same case.
I recycled several volumes manually ( twelve tapes ) and listed as
recyclable. NetWorker was pausing with the same message "waiting for
writeable volume". It was working if I relabel and mount them. Sometimes it
was working automatically without relabel and remount them, but the mounted
volumes is unpredicted. Sometimes it mount the volume from the second,
fourth, even, last slot.
And then, after writting tape from the last slot was completed, it was
waiting for the writeable volume. It can not mount the tapes which
descending order.
I am not sure, is it NetWorker 6.0.1 bug ?
Set the auto media management to enable, does not solve this problem.
Rgds,
Muhadi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lane" <JLane AT TORONTOHYDRO DOT COM>
To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Networker] tapes both recyclable and read-only?
> never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> ignorance.
> I never intended this to be either a debate or a saga. I genuinely
> didn't,
> and still don't, understand why my Networker server is behaving the way
> it
> does. I have only one pool, Default. I have tapes listed as recyclable
> but
> Networker was pausing with a "waiting for writeable volume" message.
> if I relabelled the tape to the same pool and volume serial number then
>
> remounted it all would be well. now that I've turned auto media
> management
> on it seems to be doing the same thing automatically for me. does this
> make sense? is this what the product is supposed to do?
>
> Jim Lane
> Sr. Technical Consultant
> Network Services
> Toronto Hydro
> office: (416)-542-2820
> cell: (416)-896-8576
>
> >>> treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM 16-Dec-02 12:50:24 PM >>>
> What a saga this is turning into!
>
> When a tape becomes recyclable, it is ALWAYS marked read-only,
> indicated by
> (R) in several of the NetWorker screens. Of course it is read-only,
> you
> can't write any more data to it until it has been recycled! It can be
> recycled by NetWorker into the same pool in all circumstances except
> when it
> is also marked as manually recyclable. When NetWorker recycles it, the
> read-only flag is removed. To automatically recycle into another pool
> does
> NOT (I repeat NOT) require Auto Media Management to be enabled.
>
> If you wish a tape to recycle into a different pool, then there are
> two
> flags in the pool resource, "Recycle to another pool" and "Recycle
> from
> another pool", and these must be set on the appropriate pools. Doing
> this
> also does NOT require Auto Media Management to be enabled.
>
> If you wish NetWorker to label previously unlabelled tapes, this is
> when you
> need Auto Media Management.
>
> NetWorker will only recycle a volume when it needs to satisfy a mount
> request.
>
> NetWorker will also not recycle recyclable volumes in standalone tape
> drives, unless you enable Auto Media Management on that drive, this is
> slightly different to AMM in jukeboxes because it needs to periodically
> poll
> the drive to check the contents.
>
> END OF DEBATE!
>
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:16:40 -0500, Jim Lane <JLane AT TORONTOHYDRO DOT COM>
> wrote:
>
> >i'm a little confused as to what's meant by "recycle" in this
> context.
> >without auto media management i've been getting tapes marked
> >as recyclable alright. the problem is that they aren't being re-used
> >because they're also read-only.
> >
> >Jim Lane
> >Sr. Technical Consultant
> >Network Services
> >Toronto Hydro
> >office: (416)-542-2820
> >cell: (416)-896-8576
> >
> >>>> imeirson AT MBI.CO DOT IL 16-Dec-02 10:27:31 AM >>>
> >Han,
> >Thank you for pointing out...]
> >After double checking with the documentation of nsr_jukebox it seems
> >that auto media management is not needed for the recycle.!!!
> >Sorry about posting an unconfirmed requirement.
> >Itzik
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: hanny [mailto:k0s5 AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> >Sent: Monday, 16 December, 2002 16:58
> >To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> >Subject: Re: [Networker] tapes both recyclable and read-only?
> >
> >
> >Does this auto media management a must?
> >In several environments I know, it is disabled and recycling media
> >works
> >fine also.
> >
> >my understanding, turning on this feature only if you allow the media
> >to
> >recycle to different pool
> >
> >cheers - han
> >
> >At 12/16/2002 03:06 PM, Termfreak wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>i had the same problem few weeks ago! You must activate the auto
> media
> >
> >>management and be very patiently. In my case it takes 20 Min and
> >longer
> >
> >>before he took the tape :(
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Jim Lane" <JLane AT TORONTOHYDRO DOT COM>
> >>To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> >>Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 2:08 PM
> >>Subject: [Networker] tapes both recyclable and read-only?
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi, All
> >> >
> >> > I keep getting a situation where Networker hangs up waiting for a
> >> > writeable volume. when I look at the listing of volumes in the
> GUI
> >I
> >
> >> > see a bunch of tapes at are marked recyclable but they also show
> in
> >
> >> > the volume serial field as NNNNNN(R) where the "(R)" apparently
> >> > means read-only. is it just me or does this combination not make
> >any
> >
> >> > sense. I certainly don't get it. to get things moving again I
> have
> >
> >> > to re-label the tape with "nsrjb -L -Sxxx -b "Default" NNNNNN".
> >> > after that I can mount the tape and things start moving again.
> can
> >
> >> > somebody please explain to me what I'm doing wrong here. I have
> >> > Networker 6.0 on AIX 4.3.3 with an STK 9710 library. TIA
> >> >
> >> > Jim Lane
> >> > Sr. Technical Consultant
> >> > Network Services
> >> > Toronto Hydro
> >> > office: (416)-542-2820
> >> > cell: (416)-896-8576
> >> >
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