Frank

On 10/13/08 12:29 PM, JGillTech wrote:

What is the -E arugment used for in the command nsrjb -HEvvv. I know the -H is the reset command, save as within the GUI. The command reference guide states this for the -E argument:

-E Initializes element status for jukeboxes that support this feature. You can use this 
option in conjunction with the -I or -H options. Some jukeboxes have the ability to keep 
track of whether or not there is media in a component in the jukebox. This feature is 
known as an "element status" capability. The -V option may be used to determine 
whether a jukebox has this capability. When swapping media into the jukebox where media 
was not previously loaded, it may be EMC NetWorker 7.4 Serice Pack 1 Command Reference 
Guide 9 NSRJB(1m) necessary to reinventory ( -I ) the jukebox with the -E option so the 
jukebox reinitializes its element status.

I guess what I am really asking is, what is element status? Can I see this within the GUI?

Fazil Saiyed wrote:

Hello,

Most admins have various scripts to pull out the tape which networker recognizes, it's combination of mminfo & nsrjb cmds & any other processing you may like, however, i your case you do not have I\O slots it would be slightly different. There may be other ways, if your tapes are being removed during day time with no networker actively then you can just use nsrjb -HEvvv after you have removed the tapes and inventory again to get the tape lib in sync with Networker (make sure no backups are active), what is happening with your process is that networker is not aware of the tapes being pulled and will get confused.

HTH

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Move tapes offsite & autochanger

My clone operation ran for the first time over the weekend. Now I want to take the tape out of my Quantum Scalar 50 library and move offsite. What is the process for taking a tape out of the autochanger and making NetWorker aware of the change? I did the following procedure, but ran into some issues along the way: 1.) Marked the tape full with "nsrjb -o full {barcode} 2.) Updated the location field with NW Admin Console

3.) Brought tape library offline, and pulled tape
4.) Inserted new volume into library

When I brought my library back online, I noticed the status of the library within the Admin console didn't reflect pulling the tape. So I manually tried to inventory that slot.. which didn't pickup the change (very concerning). So I issued a "reset" command to the library, which finally worked. Then I relabeled the new tape. I went to the volumes tree under media (NW Admin Console) and noticed the location field didn't retain the information. I update this information once again. What is wrong with this process? Furthermore, I tried to use the offsite flag with the command "nsrmm - o offsite -v {barcode}" I didn't notice this actually doing anything to the volume... nothing I could query or see for that fact. What does this do, if anything? Should I use this in my offsite procedure?

BTW:  I don't have any load/unload ports on my Scalar.

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