Recycling tapes

[pmwut5]

I have recently upgraded to Legato 6.1.2 from Legato 5.5.3 and have experienced problem with recycling expired volumes.

When a tape expires I recycle it to a scratch pool.

Since the upgrade I have experienced a few errors when recycling a tape say from the Local pool to the scratch pool
and the only way around this is to delete the volume and relabel it as a new tape.

Is this a known issue.

The command I am running is

/opt/networker/bin/nsrjb -LRN -bScratch -S $SLOT

Is there anyway of determining if a volume was written to by Networker 5.5.3 of Networker 6.1.2 ?

Thanks in advance

Paul

 

[Chapter11]

Can you be more specific as to what errors you are receiving?

 

[pmwut5]

nsrjb -LRN -bScratch -S $SLOT

The damon.log file shows the following

07/03/02 15:55:21 nsrd: nsrjb notice: nsrjb -j Laurie -N -O19 -L -R -g -bScratch -f /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 -S 28
07/03/02 15:55:39 nsrd: /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 Verify label operation in progress
07/03/02 15:56:47 nsrd: media warning: /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 reading: I/O error
07/03/02 15:56:53 nsrd: media warning: /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 reading: Tape label read: I/O error
07/03/02 15:56:55 nsrd: /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 Eject operation in progress
07/03/02 15:57:40 nsrd: Jukebox 'Laurie' failed: The volume name does not match what has been inventoried. Plea
se re-inventory
the volume.
07/03/02 15:58:27 nsrd: /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 Verify label operation in progress
07/03/02 15:59:47 nsrd: media warning: /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 reading: I/O error
07/03/02 15:59:53 nsrd: media warning: /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 reading: Tape label read: I/O error
07/03/02 15:59:55 nsrd: /dev/rmt/stkdlt0 Eject operation in progress

I then run
mminfo -q 'volume=1234' -r 'volume,volid'
nsrmm -dV 'volid' from above
nsrjb -LN -b Scratch -S $i -f /dev/rmt/stkdlt0

and this relables the tape.


/opt/networker/bin/mminfo -r "volume,pool,state" -q "volume=$TAPE"

Shows the tape having a state of E - Eligible for Recycling

Regards

Paul

 

[jkalbus]

Hi,
we are using Networker 6.1.2 and have similar problems. Networker is trying to relabel recyclable tapes and fails with the error of a duplicate name. After deleting the tape from the Media Index a manual relabeling works.

Until now it works, but it is not a viable solution. Anybody knows about that problem?

Johanes

 

[eskolnik]

Does anyone have a script that will check the juke box for tapes that are in recycle status and re-label them with the same label, same pool. I have a six slot jule box that this would realy make my life easyer

 

[jgarmer]

Why are you using a scatch pool? You can make pools grab from each other. I had a problem similar with Networker not picking up recyclable volumes I ran nsrim -X and this fixed it. I think a -Y nsrjb will force the relabel but it looks like your jb inventroy is messed up and you don't need the -f quailifier networker figures it out.
This is the script I use for tapes that are unlabeled

nsrjb -i -j L700A |grep ': --*'|cut -f1 -d: >/tmp/invtapesf
sort /tmp/invtapesf -r -o /tmp/invtapes
while read -r slotnum
do
if (test "x$slotnum" != "x" )
then
printf "nsrjb -j L700A -L -S %s -Y -b 'Default'
\n" "$slotnum"
fi
done </tmp/invtapes >/tmp/labeltapes
chmod a+x /tmp/labeltapes
# /tmp/labeltapes
# rm /tmp/labeltapes

joe