Interesting,   but expiring and re-importing won't change the magnetic label on
the tape so when netbackup asks the robot for the first tape and then reads it,
it's still going to puke because the magnetic label will say it's the other
tape, won't it?   Seems to me that even with the expiring and re-importation
approach, I still have to drop a drive out of automatic control, manually cause
the robot to mount the tape (maybe even open up the darn thing and pop it in
myself but I need to know how to do this remotely) and then somehow get
netbackup to think that drive is under operator control and to do it's stuff
then.

Regards,
John I Wang
Sr. Systems Engineer
Steverson Information Professionals

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> From: John_Wang AT enron DOT net [mailto:John_Wang AT enron DOT net]
> Sent: Monday 16 October, 2000 19:29

> Yes I have updated the barcode to no avail.   The problem is
> that somehow the various tapes were labeled as each other and written
> to as each other.
> Presumably this happened while the volume database was out of sync with the
> barcodes; but because that has since been corrected, the contents of the tapes
> are no longer accessible ie.: the right tape with the wrong contents gets
> mounted. I need to have a way of swapping the contents of the tapes or of
> manually causing the appropriate tape to be mounted while lying to Netbackup
> that it is actually the other tape and then doing a tape duplication.

 hum. and what about expiring the tapes, and reimporting them. could
be long i know (as long as reading the entire tape) but if you've
got time during the day...

 fx

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