Hi Michael:
I'm glad its working well for you. To answer your question, if you have
ALLOWED NBU to overwrite a tape format, it should force a label over the top
which will begin writing in the native format of the given drive, in this
case 7000.
As for the NT question, the best thing I can recommend to get the syntax
right is to run robtest.exe and see what syntax it uses to pass along to
tldtest.exe. I think you are right, it is \\dev\TAPE0 or something of the
like.
Thus far I haven't had to employ those scripts on NT...
Let me know if I can help further.
David
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From: veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Michael Traves
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:16 AM
To: David A. Chapa; veritas-bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media conversion
David;
Thanks for the script, it's been working well for me. A couple more
questions on this however -- if the tape has been written by another
application (say, CA) and we've told NBU to overwrite all tape formats, will
the bplabel it initially runs "automagically" conver the tape from 4000 to
7000, or do I still have to kill the front end of the tape manually?
Also, I've been trying to convert this script to NT and have been having
some problems -- from the command line, how does one send data out to a
device, which according to NBU comes back as say \\dev\Tape0 or similar?
Michael Traves
----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>
To: "Michael Traves" <mtraves.news AT home DOT com>
Cc: <Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media conversion
> Since it is already in DLT4000 format, it will continue
> to be written in that format. NBU will typically label
> tapes once.
>
> My suggestion has always been to run dd, we called
> Quantum and they confirmed that its probably the best
> process. Then bplabel the tape and the DRIVE should
> mark the tape as being in 7000 format versus 4000.
>
> Attached is a quick script to help in the process. If
> you don't get the attachment, let me know I'll include
> it in the mail next time.
>
> David
>
>
> Quoting Michael Traves <mtraves.news AT home DOT com>:
>
> > When upgrading from DLT4000 to DLT7000 using
> NetBackup, is there anything
> > you have to do to the DLT-IV cartridges to ensure
> that when you re-enter
> > the
> > DLT4000 "formatted" tape into the library is they get
> written in DLT7000
> > "format"? When a tape is scratched by NetBackup,
> will this do it? Or do
> > you have to delete the Media ID and re-add it as a
> new tape?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mike
> >
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