Stan Horwitz <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote on 07/03/2008 09:21:07 AM:

> 
> On Jul 3, 2008, at 9:16 AM, MIchael Leone wrote:
> 
> > Stan Horwitz <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote on 07/03/2008 09:08:30 AM:
> >
> >> If you delete the volumes you want to relabel with "nsrmm -d volname"
> >> you should be able to relabel them.
> >
> > OK, that works. But why do I need it *now*? I know I never had to do
> > "nsrmm -d volname" before. I would just mark them as recyclable, and 
> > just
> > issue the nsrjb -R -L command.
> >
> > I can put that in the script, before it re-labels. Have to look up the
> > option for non-interactive use.
> 
> You're lucky if this is the first time you had to delete volumes from 
> the media database in order to manually relabel them. You certainly 
> shouldn't need to do that, but it is a "normal" course of action for 
> many NetWorker system administrators, including me. Why? I don't know. 

Harrumph. :-) OK, not that big a deal to do a 

@ECHO YES | nsrmm -v -d %TapeVol%

in the script before the "nsrjb". I just find it weird that it only came 
up after a mmrecov, and it worked before the mmrecov (and in fact, was 
working at the time the mmrecov tape was made, 2 months ago).

> I chalk it off to a software bug. Perhaps it will be fixed in a future 
> NetWorker version, but considering this problem has persisted for 
> years, I am not holding my breath. On the upside, for some reason, I 
> noticed that this happens a lot less frequently since I upgraded to 7.4.

Yeah, I got a lot more to worry about that this. :-) 

Thanks

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