Re: [Networker] How to recover an aborted tape ?

Hi,

;-) Yes, I know the cause of the abort saveset because it was a failoverproblem of the library.

I can use another tape, because yes, they are cheap ... but this tape isan LTO4 tape with only 1% of data on it and I would like to be able toadd more data to it without adding another tape, another tape number, etc.

The problem is that a failure of our Scalar i500 I/O Blade, suport haschanged this board and suddenly we're having problems with tapedisconnections, tape number reordering, etc. (the typical things inpersistence naming/binding environments). And I don't want to waste atape because a now recurring problem. Support is working on it in themeantime.


Thanks to everyone.

El 19/07/2012 10:59, Andrew Martin escribió:

If the tape has an aborted saveset and has marked the tape as full, just mark 
the volume as appendable. New data will be written after the aborted saveset.

BUT you need to ask yourself why you have an aborted saveset in the first place!

Regards

Andrew

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Subject: Re: [Networker] How to recover an aborted tape ?

On 19/07/12 08:23, Manel Rodero Blanquez wrote:

Hi,

Thanks to all for the answers. I don't want to stage data. I don't
mind to have an aborted save set on the tape. I only want it to be
available for writing more data instead of being marked full.

I'll try the nsrmm command to see if it works. If I use the GUI for
marking as appendable the tape is not used so is worth the check ...


If it doesn't work from the GUI there's very little chance it will work from 
nsrmm. The GUI is only calling nsrmm anyway.

Sometimes a load of garbage gets written when a session is aborted so it might 
not be able to get past that.

What's the big deal over a part of one tape anyway? Tapes are cheap.


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