Yaron Zabary <yaron AT aristo.tau.ac DOT il> wrote on 07/06/2008 12:03:02 PM:

> 
>    I really wonder why you bother with the 'echo yes | nsrmm ...' when 
> both nsrmm and nsrjb have a -y/-Y flag which eliminate the 'Do you 
> really want ... ?' question.

Gross and blatant stupidity? :-) Never noticed that the -Y option was 
there ...

> 
> MIchael Leone wrote:
> > Stan Horwitz <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote on 07/03/2008 09:21:07 AM:
> > 
> >> On Jul 3, 2008, at 9:16 AM, MIchael Leone wrote:
> >>
> >>> Stan Horwitz <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote on 07/03/2008 09:08:30 AM:
> >>>
> >>>> If you delete the volumes you want to relabel with "nsrmm -d 
volname"
> >>>> you should be able to relabel them.
> >>> OK, that works. But why do I need it *now*? I know I never had to do
> >>> "nsrmm -d volname" before. I would just mark them as recyclable, and 

> >>> just
> >>> issue the nsrjb -R -L command.
> >>>
> >>> I can put that in the script, before it re-labels. Have to look up 
the
> >>> option for non-interactive use.
> >> You're lucky if this is the first time you had to delete volumes from 

> >> the media database in order to manually relabel them. You certainly 
> >> shouldn't need to do that, but it is a "normal" course of action for 
> >> many NetWorker system administrators, including me. Why? I don't 
know. 
> > 
> > Harrumph. :-) OK, not that big a deal to do a 
> > 
> > @ECHO YES | nsrmm -v -d %TapeVol%
> > 
> > in the script before the "nsrjb". I just find it weird that it only 
came 
> > up after a mmrecov, and it worked before the mmrecov (and in fact, was 

> > working at the time the mmrecov tape was made, 2 months ago).
> > 
> >> I chalk it off to a software bug. Perhaps it will be fixed in a 
future 
> >> NetWorker version, but considering this problem has persisted for 
> >> years, I am not holding my breath. On the upside, for some reason, I 
> >> noticed that this happens a lot less frequently since I upgraded to 
7.4.
> > 
> > Yeah, I got a lot more to worry about that this. :-) 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
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> -- 
> 
> -- Yaron.

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