Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU overwriting data on Tape

In 2007, I received about 500 tapes written by Commvault Galaxy 5.9.  I 
put new barcode stickers on the cartridge, loaded them in the tape 
library, inventoried them into the SCRTCH pool, and did not make any 
modifications to the media manager.  It used them all without any 
complaints.

Commvault writes their own tape format, which are not any of the known 
formats that netbackup will detect.

I did the same thing with old AIT-1 ArcServe tapes, but did not get new 
barcode labels.

-Jon


> I agree that this is the proper behavior, but I've never tested it with
> TSM tapes.  I would put a TSM that you CAN delete in there and try to
> label it in NBU via bplabel without the -o option and see what happens.
> I agree with Gregory that it should not overwrite it (unless you specify
> the -o option).
>
> ---
> W. Curtis Preston
> Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
> VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Geyer,
> Gregory
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:41 PM
> To: Randy Samora; Kristofer; ANIL555 AT MAURYA DOT US
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU overwriting data on Tape
>
> NBU shouldn't use an outside tape with data on it:
>
> http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/249632.htm
>
> These are usually tapes written outside of NetBackup that have found
> their way into the library. By default, NetBackup will only write to a
> blank media or other NetBackup media. Other media types (DBR, TAR, CPIO,
> ANSI, MTF1 and recycled Backup Exec BE-MTF1 media) will be frozen as a
> safety measure. This behavior can be changed with the following
> procedure:
>
> UNIX
> To allow NetBackup to overwrite foreign media, add the following to
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf for the media server in question:
>
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = DBR 
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = TAR
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = CPIO
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = ANSI
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = MTF1
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = BE-MTF1
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = AOS/VS
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = RS-MTF1
>
> Stop and restart the NetBackup daemons for the changes to take effect
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Randy
> Samora
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:12 PM
> To: Kristofer; ANIL555 AT MAURYA DOT US
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU overwriting data on Tape
>
> Will NetBackup recognize that it is a TSM tape and that there is data on
> there written by TSM?
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> Kristofer
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:30 PM
> To: ANIL555 AT MAURYA DOT US
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU overwriting data on Tape
>
> In addition to what everyone else said, if you put a tape in the robot
> and do not do an inventory in NetBackup, when NetBackup attempts to
> mount the tape that it THINKS is there, it will read the header of the
> tape and realize that the media-id on the header of the tape doesn't
> match what it thinks is in the library, so it will freeze that tape and
> not use it.  NetBackup does several checks to make sure it doesn't write
> over a tape that is not expired.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ANIL555 AT MAURYA DOT US
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:33:03 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU overwriting data on Tape
>
> Hi
> We are planning to move from TSM to NBU. We heard draw back that NBU can
> accidently overwrite data on tape if tape library inventory is not run
> after putting full tape in library.
>                                  If that is true, how can we avoide ?
> Your help is very much appreciated.
>
> THX
>
>   

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