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Why not use a different volume group for those media?  Then you can always
perform a search (at least within volume manager) for  media in the 
"bad_media_on_shelf"
volume group, or something like that.

Thanks
Peter

Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
Xinupro, LLC
617-834-2352



Hindle, Greg wrote:
> Nb 5.0 mp4 Solaris 9
> 
> 
> Ok We from time to time get read / write errors on tapes. When this
> happens we clean the drive and write protect the tape and put it on our
> bad tape rack never to be used again except if a restore is needed (we
> try to restore form it anyway). I want to somehow keep track of this
> tape in netbackup and identify it as a bad tape. Does anyone have a way
> of doing this? I though of editing the vault slot field and put like all
> 0000 or something like that but this only works till someone takes the
> tape and puts it in our L700 and forgets to take it out. Enterprise
> vault will re assign it a new slot and then we would loose track of the
> tape. I just cannot think of a way to track these tapes better other
> than a manual system. Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Greg
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