> From: Sixbury, Dan [mailto:sixbury AT celeritas DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday 20 November, 2001 20:49

> 1.  When and why does NetBackup physically relabel tapes, and
> is there a way to prevent it from writing over an existing label?

 It shoudln't rewrite an existing label, but instead reuse the
existing one. Exception is if you check any of the ALLOW_OVERWRITE
options - this is from memory, can't check that right now.

> 2.  To alleviate the problem, we corrected the logical
> location of tapes within media manager, and I am currently using bplabel
> from the command line to verify the tape label.  Is there a way to
> relabel tapes from the GUI?

 No, not yet.

> (NT admins don't typically like the command line like us Unix
> guys do.  ;-)
> )  Is there another way other than bplabel to verify what the
> label on a tape is?

 Just mount the tape (with robtest fe., and watch the Device Monitor,
or run vmoprcmd.

> 3.  Is there a suggested best practice to alleviate this problem from
> happening in the future?

 Use barcodes ;-)

 Amicalement, fx.

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