strange volume name

[denisfr]

Hello,

we've experimented a swap exhaustion under our aix this week-end ;-)

after rebooting the OS, we've found some tapes with strange names, prefixed with ~ (spanish tilde) and suffixed with -1, like that : ~0D0123-1

Has anyone seen that ?

Thanks.

 

[605]

This looks like a defective media database. If you can not repair it with nsrck, you should recover it with mmrecov.

 

[Rif123]

I've seen it many times, but not sure it is the exact same problem. What I've usually seen is that a few volumes have had multiple entries in the media database. One with the correct "barcode" match and one starting with the ~.

I usually just wait for them till they expire and then deletes the one starting with ~. I think there are plenty of examples on powerlink how to solv these errors.

Also if you are having duplicates, you should be able to delete the ~ one if your original looks ok, ie all save sets has been recorded on the orignial tape name.