In regard to: [Networker] Problem with a tape label, Stan Horwitz said (at...:

After I got to work this morning, I tried to manually label the troublesome tape with nsrjb -L and it failed. NetWorker said the tape was already labeled.

If you run the admin gui and add a `-v' to the command line of nsrjb, when
you do the `-L', either in the terminal or in the GUI messages area you
should see a message about what NetWorker read for a tape label.

How do I resolve this issue remotely? I know there's a way to identify the printed label on a tape, but damned if I don't remember how. I tried "nsrjb -p" but that also complained about the "unknown pool."

I would load (but not mount) the volume and read the first file off the
tape using dd:

        $ sudo nsrjb -v -l -n -S 220 -f /dev/nst2
        $ sudo dd if=/dev/nst2 of=/tmp/label bs=128k
        $ od -t c /tmp/label

The pool and label for the volume I tested with are at about position 360
(hex) in the output.

Tim
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