Hello, The question of "should we be paying particular attention of tape labels" question reared it's ugly head for me once again and I can't remember the answer. Am I correct to believe that NBU won
By 'label', do you mean the barcode on the outside of the tape? If so, when you put such a tape in the robot, it will assume it is the original (written to) tape with the same barcode. However, if it
NB will not allow duplicated id’s So yes, if you try to inject a tape that has the same barcode as one you already have IN THE LIBRARY it will not allow it.. But the answer to your question is
Author: "William Brown" <william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:05:07 +0100
I was quite surprised to find that NetBckup is not just looking at the tape label, but also what I think is the cartridge serial number with LTO. I guess that comes from the LTO-CM. This is 6.5.4 Thi
Author: "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:36:10 -0500
Here we always order new tapes with barcodes that start in sequence with the end of the last set. Duplicating barcodes is not a good idea. From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mail
Author: "William Brown" <william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:15:52 +0100
Well I thought that but see a bit above: \\.\Tape1, drive serial number HU10606CNF, expected serial number HU10606CNF That’s the drive serial number. William D L Brown From: Preston, Douglas [m
William, We have seen this extra label checking on a unix (solaris) master also. With our master at 6.5.3 it is not quite so pretty. I believe that there are several known methods for the serial numb
Thanks to all for the info. I think we will be ordering several hundred at a time and paying attention to the labels. Regards, John Keating Information Technology Tachi-S Engineering U.S.A. Inc. Len