On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:08:22PM -0500, Tim Mooney wrote:
> I have a vague recollection that older versions of NetWorker would reset
> the olabel/recycled/mounts stats if you manually relabelled tapes from
> one pool to another, so you may not be able to rely on those fields as
> 100% accurate if there's been manual relabelling in your environment.
> It looks like at least NetWorker 7.2.x gets it right, though, and tracks
> those counts even when you relabel to other pools.

I don't recall that behavior in older systems.  But I've worked at more
than one place where the SOP called for *deleting* volumes from the
media databases (it did make a small bit of sense for their
environment).  If someone were doing that, then the values in the
catalog wouldn't be very useful.

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