mminfo mystery

[ChrisEsser]

Does anyone know how this could happen, and how to fix it?

> mminfo -q inuse -r barcode,pool,location
barcode pool location
000448 32 Day Offsite

I'm thinking that we have one GREAT jukebox that it can write to tapes that aren't even in the building!

 

[BW78]

the option "-q inuse" only view tapes that actually used by Legato Networker.

mminfo -s %server% -a -r"barcode, pool, location"

 

[ChrisEsser]

Not exactly, the -q is for tapes that are currently in use. i.e. being read or written to. This flag has been incorrectly written to the media db. I would like to know if anyone has seen the behavior on 6.1.2 and if there is a way to fix it.

The reason this is of concern to me is because we have a custom written tape management program that uses this flag to determine if it is safe to withdraw a pool of tapes. Until I manually withdrew this tape from the jukebox. The tape operators could not unload this pool for offsite storage.

 

[keefb]

The location switch can also be changed manually from the GUI or from the command line, are you sure that no-one has changed this ???

Using the -r switch will only report tapes used in the last seven days, try using -avr"barcode,pool,location". Regards
KeefB

 

[ChrisEsser]

No, It's not the location that's wrong. It's the INUSE flag. The tape is not in use, but Networker thinks it is.

 

[BW78]

Perhaps, someone has changed this flag manually