Re: [Networker] HELP~ How to recycle the tapes?
2002-09-13 19:53:05
I only know how to do it from the GUI. But on the server open Networker, and
goto Media-->Volumes. Click the volume you want to recycle, goto
Volume-->Change Mode-->Recycle.
Hope that helps!
-Matt
On Friday 13 September 2002 04:07 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Legato Networker. We are using Networker for Solaris v6.1.2
> with Sun StorEdge L9 Autoloader. Everything works well so far. The
> question I have is how to recycle old tapes. The Sun StorEdge L9 has 9
> tape slots in it. When all 9 tapes are full, what I did is take out all
> the tapes and insert fresh tapes, then use NWADMIN to label those tapes.
> By doing this, Networker will also mount those tapes and continue the
> backups. We just used up all tapes and I would like to recycle tapes from
> the first one. I took out the last set of the tapes from L9 and insert set
> of old tapes that was labeled 001~009. I can't figure out how to tell
> networker that I insert those tapes for recycling purpose. Any idea?
>
> I did try to mount those tapes after I insert, but seems like I can only
> mount one at a time and takes 10 min to do so. After mount the old tape,
> it still can't do the backup because those tapes are full. Can someone
> instruct me simple steps to make things work? Thank you so much
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Matt Hemingway
matt.hemingway AT pcnalert DOT com
http://www.pcnalert.com
626-585-2788 x136
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