I believe the process you need is as follows:

1) Start the restore
2) Load the tape into the mail slot and inject the tape
        OR
2) Manually put the tape in a slot in the library
3) Re-inventory the library so Media Manager knows the location of the tape
(I suppose you could use vmchange to tell Media Manager where the tape is,
too)
4) Use the 'vmoprcmd' command to resubmit the mount request: vmoprcmd
-resubmit 0

Or I suppose you could just restart the restore once the tape is in the
library.
                                                --Matt--


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kovar, David [SMTP:kovar AT ciena DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:59 PM
> To:   'Marelas, Peter'; 'dayalsd AT lycos DOT com';
> 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'; Dong Wang
> Subject:      RE: [Veritas-bu] how to mount a tape and tell NetBackup to
> use it for file restore
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've had the same problem and I've got barcodes on my tapes. 
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marelas, Peter [mailto:MarelP AT australia.stortek DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:43 PM
> To: 'dayalsd AT lycos DOT com'; 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'; 
> Dong Wang
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] how to mount a tape and tell NetBackup to use
> it for file restore
> 
> 
> Given there is no barcode you would need to move it into a drive
> manually. Then netbackup will read the label on tape and the
> media should become available.
> 
> If I remember correctly you can use vmchange to move tapes around
> in the library. To move it into a drive you may need to use
> robtest.
> 
> You could overcome most of this if you had a corresponding
> barcode label.
> 
> Regards
> Peter Marelas
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dayal singh [mailto:dayalsd AT lycos DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 7:13 AM
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'; Dong Wang
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] how to mount a tape and tell NetBackup to use
> it for file restore
> 
> 
>  I am also running into the similar problem. After loading the tape and
> doing an inventory, still the restore waits forever. What I am doing is to
> kill the restore and restart it. But someone on the list can share their
> thoughts on fixing this problem
> 
> Dayal
> 
> --
> 
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:42:55  
>  Dong Wang wrote:
> >I am practicing restoring files from offsited tapes. The following are
> the
> >steps I took:
> >
> >1. the tape was ejected from the robot by using the xbpadm interface
> (select
> >the tape, then Actions->Eject)
> >2. restore a file that is backed up on the ejected tape. Within the
> xbpadm
> >interface, when checking the progress report, it shows:
> >
> >Sep 10 12:15:37 2001
> >
> >12:15:39 (1077.xxx) Restore job id 1077 will require 1 image.
> >12:15:39 (1077.xxx) Media id A00035 is needed for the restore.
> >
> >12:15:47 (1077.001) Restoring from image created Sun Sep 09 00:08:14 2001
> >12:15:49 (1077.001) INF - Waiting for mount of media id A00035 on server
> >admin.
> >12:15:50 (1077.001) INF - Media id A00035 is not in a robotic library;
> >administrative interaction may be required to satisfy a mount request.
> >
> >3. Then I inserted the tape to the mail slot location of the magazine.
> >
> >4. Now how do I tell NetBackup that the tape with Media id A00035 is in
> the
> >mail slot and mount it?
> >(there is no barcode on the tape)
> >
> >Thanks a lot for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Dong Wang
> >> Grand Central Networks
> >> dwang AT grandcentral DOT com
> >> 
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