Perhaps those tapes you are recycling were labelled after the date you used for 
your mmrecov. In fact I recall the other day you said your retention was less 
than 2 months. 

Tapes have a short and a long internal volid. While the short one stays the 
same, they get a new volid each time you relabel. So when you mmrecov'd to 2 
months ago that would be expected that you would have a mismatch between what's 
in the mmdb and on the tape's label. 

This is a safety mechanism to prevent tapes from different datazones with 
identical barcodes from being accidentally wiped. Be thankful for it. It 
prevents pain and is the essence of why networker keeps your data safe even 
when you mix up drive ordering. 

Next time you have WISS errors I suggest you try and avoid mmrecov if possible. 

 Try shutdown. Remove the tmp files. Startup and run nsrim -X


----- Original Message -----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Sent: Thu Jul 03 23:16:33 2008
Subject: Re: [Networker] Problems re-labeling tapes after mmrecov

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.

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