Oh and to answer your question about whether there is a 
way to change the recorded volume serial number after 
it has been written to?

NO

You'll have to dup the media to some other tape and 
follow the procedures to expire the old, trash the 
header and relabel it.

sorry I missed this before.

david

Quoting "RYAN C. ANDERSON" <ryan_anderson AT udlp DOT com>:

> I deleted an expired volume from Media Mgr, removed 
its label, then put
> on a new label and NetBackup has used the tapes a 
couple times for
> duplicates.  The problem is that when its being used, 
it shows its EVSN
> as the new label (B00010), buts its RVSN is the old 
label that is
> deleted out (000010).  I've read through previous 
threads on this issue,
> but the resolutions where to overwrite or delete data 
from the tape
> before its used.  This one is being used...  It 
appears to work fine as
> it is, but is there any way to change the RVSN after 
data is being
> written to it?  Are there any possible dangers as it 
is?
>
> Regards,
>
> RCA
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