On Wed, 10 May 2000, Norm Szcyrek wrote:

> I would like to recycle a previously used DLT, but assign it a new Media
> ID. The problem is, MM still sees the RVSN and/or EVSN that was
> originally assigned to it, and I have a theory that this causes
> confusion within the MM database. Can anyone suggest an easy/quick way
> to fully erase a tape, or at least erase the two NB derived IDs
> [RVSN,EVSN]? 

I just went through this with a bunch of tapes that NetBackup had decided
was bad (apparently from a controller problem we had).  All you should
have to do is relabel the tape, you can do that with the "bplabel"
command.

I just checked and I no longer have the command in my history, but I
believe you just need to run:
        <nebackupdir>/bin/admincmd/bplabel -ev <id> -d dlt -n <drive>
where <id> is the tape ID you wish to write on the tape, and <drive> is
the NetBackup name for the drive.

In my world, I would use:
        /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bplabel -ev DGQ100 -d dlt -n Drive0

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