Media ID Generation

[spitman]

Just need a little help with Media ID Generation...

I just had a catman migration from a RHEL 6.x host to a 5240 appliance; it appears that the barcode rules etc. didn't make it over. (not sure who else would have possibly gone in and deleted/changed this).

Anyways, tapes are showing up with "1234L5," and what I want them to show up with is "001234." I'm pretty sure this is in inventory robot -> update volume configuration -> advanced options -> media ID generation, but I'm not 100% sure; and in my attempts I haven't been able to get it set right. I did attempt to ask Mr. Google to help me find the answer I need, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

Thanks in advance--

[Nicolai]

did you find these Veritas notes ?: 

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000112242

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000029357

[Krutons]

When you say this was a migration, did you perform a catalog recovery? That should have included all media configurations.

[spitman]

@Nicolai Yes--I did find those two--but neither seem to be helping me to spit out the exact syntax I want for the Media ID. I tried 6 digits and 1:2:3:4, but it still came out with the L5 at the end... I'm trying to figure out how to make it put two zeros at the beginning.

[spitman]

@Krutons yes--I'd hate to think someone went in there and deleted that information, though. We had a CATMAN specialist and a Veritas tech on the line. Just about everything else went seamlessly.

[Nicolai · Accepted solution]

Try logical removing the tapes in the robot and perfrom a new inventory.

This is a media generation rule from one of my robots - file is from vm.conf

MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS = 1 8 1:2:3:4:5:6

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000112051

Excatly how many chars does yore robot return ?.

E.g StorageTek robot hides the type .e.g L5 where other robot types report this back to the hosts.

[spitman]

@Nicolai, the EIGHT was the key.

I was putting in barcode length 6. Makes total sense now.

Thanks for nudging me in the right direction!    

[Nicolai]

I am glad I could help @spitman

Just to rub a bit of salt in the wound, Netbackup actual tell you how many chars a barcode is :D

# vmcheckxxx -rt tld -rn 1 -list

Robot Contents

Slot Tape Barcode
==== ==== ============
1 Yes P60023L6

Best Regards

Nicolai