[Veritas-bu] How to re-use a Netbackup Catalog tape for normal backups

See attached,
here is VNBDC 45 example.  The DLT tape "BPDB1" being used for Netbackup 
Catalog Backup,
the DLT drive name is "dlt4000";
the new label is  "v1":

.....
# bplabel -m v1 -d dlt -n dlt4000    
Media is already NetBackup format, media id = BPDB1 , overwrite it y/n 
(n)? y
#
.....

:-)

Rgds,
    Vyacheslav Kovalev


David A. Chapa wrote:

>I agree to lablel them interactively, but it will not relabel the tape with 
>out 
>it (-o) because NBU by default will not "touch" an NBDB header tape.
>
>In the "old days" before the -o option was there, the only way to do this was 
>to trash the header using dd for example then running bplabel.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David
>
>Quoting Vyacheslav Kovalev <kovalev AT ot DOT ru>:
>
>>Yes David,
>>but I would recommend to label such single tapes interactivity,  (IMHO).
>>The option -o is more preferable when you label  the big volume pool 
>>using simple script (as example):
>>
>>for i in 1 2 ....20 ...
>>do
>>bplabel -o -m A000$i ....
>>...
>>done.
>>
>>Rgds,   
>>    Vyacheslav Kovalev.
>>
>>
>>
>>David A. Chapa wrote:
>>
>>>make sure you use the -o (overwrite) option with bplabel.
>>>
>>>Quoting Vyacheslav Kovalev <kovalev AT ot DOT ru>:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>in this case you can use "bplabel" with appropriate options.
>>>>
>>>>Rgds, Vyacheslav
>>>>
>>>>>Message: 3
>>>>>From: "Shingal, Anit (MED, TCS, GEMS-IT)" <Anit.Shingal AT med.ge DOT com>
>>>>>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>>>>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:41:31 -0600 
>>>>>Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to re-use a Netbackup Catalog tape for normal
>>>>>
>>>>backups
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>How can i re-use a tape which was earlier used to backup Netbackup
>>>>>Catalog, for normal backups ? I've tried de-assigning it by command line
>>>>>and putting it in a different volume pool, but still netbackup is
>>>>>somehow able to recognize the tape as a catalog backup tape and freezes
>>>>>the tape.
>>>>>Any ideas/suggestions would help.
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>anit
>>>>>
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