Don't forget to use the -o option to overwrite the old label.

Patrick Whelan 
Consulting 
[NBU (with extensions) and Storage Migrator] 
[VxFS and Volume Manager]
pwhelan AT veritas DOT com

Of course this is just my opinion, I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Friends help friends move, good friends help move bodies - Unknown.



                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Dan Rich [mailto:drich AT employees DOT org]
                Sent:   Wednesday, May 10, 2000 12:51 PM
                To:     Norm Szcyrek
                Cc:     veritas-bu AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
                Subject:        Re: [Veritas-bu] An easier/faster way to
erase a NB DLT ?

                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

                -- 
                Dan Rich <drich AT employees DOT org> |
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the last of me!" 
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