Tony,

Thanks for the suggestion.  My experience with nsrjb -II (granted this is from 
four years ago when I was forced into recreating this jukebox) is that when the 
jukebox is first created, the -II is demoted to -I, and all the tapes have to 
be loaded into drives and checked.  If that behavior is no longer true, I'd 
love to know that.

-- Frank


On Oct 26, 2012, at 8:03 AM, Tony Albers <Tony.Albers AT PROACT DOT DK> wrote:

> Suggestion: nsrjb -II  followed by nsrjb -I -S slots that couldn't be 
> verified just by their barcode.
> 
> /tony
> 
> 
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> On 10/26/2012 01:18 PM, Francis Swasey wrote:
>> On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:08 AM, Riku Valli <riku.valli AT UTA DOT FI> wrote:
>> 
>>> I used  persistent names at my Redhat box and 7.6.3 with NMC. You can
>>> made jukebox and tape-devices very easily with persistent names. It's
>>> that simple and quickly at when my RedHat lost devices and i must
>>> recreate them i used NMC for it. Persistent names are mandatory for
>>> Linux or you lost devices at every boot.
>> 
>> In RHEL5, I developed the udev rules that I posted last night because the 
>> tape drives were moving around.  It was RHEL6 that started initializing the 
>> HBA's in random order and actually caused the issue of the scsi host number 
>> of the HBA that is attached to the control port of the jukebox changing 
>> almost every reboot.
>> 
>> I also stated in my first message that this jukebox was created (via 
>> jbconfig) back in 2008 and the NetWorker configuration has come along with 
>> me from RHEL4 and NetWorker 7.3 all the way to RHEL6 and NetWorker 7.6.4 
>> (It's also converted from 32-bit to 64-bit OS's in that time).  The reason I 
>> can't just delete the jukebox and create it again through NMC is because of 
>> the multiple days it would take to run the inventory of the 1400 tapes in 
>> the thing.
>> 
>> I keep trying to get a real test environment with a small jukebox so I can 
>> experiment with this stuff.  However, so far I have not been able to shake 
>> the necessary money loose.  Therefore, I am very thankful for the existence 
>> of this mailinglist and the help that everyone here is giving to all of us.
>> 
>> -- Frank
>>