Media ID problems with Restores 1

[finance3]

Hi

Forgive me if this question has been asked before, but I cannot seem to find the answer and am tearing my hair out.

I am currently using NB4.5 on a Windows 2000 box, attached is a fastor2 with an LTO2 drive. This fastor2 does not at the moment have a barcode reader, so media is assigned a new ID every time it is inventoried, i.e. A000xx.

I am trying to do a restore from a tape assigned last week, the restore is expecting to see ID A00012, however if I place this tape in an available slot and do an inventory, then it will be assigned the next available ID. Which in this case will be A00016, NB will therefore never attempt to restore from what it perceives is the wrong media.

I can load the tape itself into the LTO2 drive, and can see that it is what I expect it to be, A00012. Having got this far I thought I had cracked it, by kicking off the restore with the media in the drive, but NB does not like this.

So, I guess, the question is, how do I tell NB that the tape in slot 1, 2, 3 etc. is really A000yy as opposed to A000xx.

Thanks for your time.

 

[MrLula]

Hi,

You will need to MOVE the media manualy in the Media Database. If you do an Inventory Robot and updates the database, the media will be assigned as new because the lack of barcode.

The MOVE function is available with a rigth click on the media. Volumes not inside the robot should be listed as "Standalone".

If you are adding just one media than you can use the "inject via MAP" on the MOVE screen. If you are adding more than one volume you should place than physicaly inside the robot sequentialy and then do the MOVE informing the fisrt slot number.

I hope it helps.

MrLula

 

[finance3]

MrLula

Thanks for your help, this worked a treat.