We use both methods here.

If  media has images on it, I freeze it, eject it from the robot, put a
sticky on it that says "BAD MEDIA - Destroy after (recycle date) and
send it offsite.  If a media goes bad when writing its first image I
have a "BAD" Volume Pool I move it to, and I periodically clear this
from the ATL.

-Jonathan
 

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Why not use a different volume group for those media?  Then you can
always perform a search (at least within volume manager) for  media in
the "bad_media_on_shelf"
volume group, or something like that.

Thanks
Peter

Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
Xinupro, LLC
617-834-2352



Hindle, Greg wrote:
> Nb 5.0 mp4 Solaris 9
> 
> 
> Ok We from time to time get read / write errors on tapes. When this 
> happens we clean the drive and write protect the tape and put it on 
> our bad tape rack never to be used again except if a restore is needed

> (we try to restore form it anyway). I want to somehow keep track of 
> this tape in netbackup and identify it as a bad tape. Does anyone have

> a way of doing this? I though of editing the vault slot field and put 
> like all 0000 or something like that but this only works till someone 
> takes the tape and puts it in our L700 and forgets to take it out. 
> Enterprise vault will re assign it a new slot and then we would loose 
> track of the tape. I just cannot think of a way to track these tapes 
> better other than a manual system. Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Greg
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