Re: [Networker] Recover can't find volume after "scanner -m"?

10 digit barcode!!

Who wants to track 10 BILLION tapes!  Small wonder it's unsupported

We use a letter and then 5 digits - that's a namespace of 2.6 million
already - more tapes than I plan on seeing

Good times

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of MIchael Leone
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:36 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Recover can't find volume after "scanner -m"?


EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
04/30/2008 05:29:20 PM:

> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Recover can't find volume after 
"scanner...:
> 
> >C:\PHA Scripts>mminfo -a -r barcode | wc -l
> >847
> >
> >C:\PHA Scripts>mminfo -a -r barcode | sort | uniq | wc -l
> >491
> >
> >Now, that's strange ....
> 
> That does seem pretty odd.  I would definitely look into that,
probably
> start with something like
> 
>    mminfo -a -r 'barcode,volume,volid' | sort
> 
> (sort without the uniq, so you can see what barcodes might map to 
multiple
> volumes or volume ids).  That may be the source of your problem, or it
> might be a red herring.

Red herring, I think .. I forgot, our latest barcode labels have too
many 
digits to be read by the barcode reader in our libraries, so I've got 
hundreds of tapes that have no barcodes on them (according to NetWorker,

anyway - I manually label the tapes with the 10 digit barcode from the 
label, since our library won't read any barcode with more than 8 digits
on 
it).

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