One more suggestion, just to show how flexible NetBackup is. Duplicate the
tape, change the primary copy, expire the original tape, delete from media
manager, put a new label on the tape, re-inventory the robot. Be sure to do
like Curtis says and put the <NONE> bar code rule in.
Of course that is just my opinion, I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller.
Patrick Whelan
Consulting
[NBU (with extensions) and Storage Migrator]
[VxFS and Volume Manager]
pwhelan AT veritas DOT com
-----Original Message-----
From: Bakh, Robert
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 7:10 AM
To: 'Vik_Bhatia AT Playstation.sony DOT com';
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Labeling Tapes
DO NOT BPLABEL THEM!
Ok now that, that is out of the way. bplabel would write
over the header
information changing the structure of the tape and void any
images on that
tape.
Your best bet is to freeze the tapes
bpmedia -ev A00001 -freeze
this way the images expire, when the images expire remove
the tape from
Media Manager control, by deleting it from the Media Manager
GUI, it won't
let you do that till the images are expired.
Then put the new barcode on it and bplabel it.
Hope hat helps,
Bob
label
-----Original Message-----
From: Vik_Bhatia AT Playstation.sony DOT com
[mailto:Vik_Bhatia AT Playstation.sony DOT com]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 6:38 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Labeling Tapes
All,
We have a robotic tape library and the tapes are labeled by
veritas
according to the barcode label. For some strange reason
there are a few
tapes added to the library recently that took a different
naming scheme. In
the Media manager utility, the barcode column for these
tapes shows a
blank. I am thinking that the robot could not read these
tapes so media
manager gave it a RVSN according to the default scheme.
I am prepared to put a new barcode label and try again,
however the tapes
have valid backups on them. So my question is, if I bplabel
the tape with
the same number as the new barcode label, will it mess
anything up? Or is
there a better way to fix this? The barcode label that the
robot wasn't
able to read (I'm assuming thats the problem) seems fine and
legible.
Thanks for your help!
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Vik Bhatia
Database Administrator
Sony Computer Entertainment America
919 E Hillsdale Blvd. Foster City, CA 94404
650-655-8069
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