Based on what Davina said, if you do a mminfo query like:
mminfo -a -r
"volid,volume,written,pool,location,volaccess,volflags,type" -q
'!volrecycle,full,written>0,written <200GB
assuming that the normal uncompressed storage of your tape is 200GB, any
tape marked as full and less than that amount could be considered "bad".
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Davina Treiber
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:55 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Listing bad tapes (CLI)
Vernon Harris wrote:
> Tapes that have write errors, are they marked as
> unusable by the software??? Coming from the netbackup
> world, tapes are marked as frozen if they are they
> can't be written to.
Tapes are marked full when errors occur. This does not prevent them from
being recycled and used again in the future. NetWorker does not freeze
tapes in the way NetBackup does.
>
> Also, is there a concept of scratch tapes. Where any
> volume pool that needs a blank tape can go to the
> scratch pool and automatically assign the tape to the
> pool defined in the group???
This is not something that is in the product by design, but it can
easily be implemented. Create a pool called scratch, set the flag to
allow tapes from the scratch pool to be recycled to other pools, and set
all other pools to allow tapes to be recycled from other pools. Then
label new tapes into the scratch pool and make them recyclable.
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