topic Re: Replace old tape in Operating System - HP-UX

Replace old tape

aruns_s — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:58:09 GMT

We are using DP for backups. Due to the usgae of very old medias, some of our backup jobs started to fail.I have managed to get some new medias. What I would like to do is to replace old medias.What is the proceedure to use a new tape in data protector? I believe it needs to be initialized.. Please advice.

Many thanks

Re: Replace old tape

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:09:56 GMT

You can run the omniminit command from the shell or ou can use the GUI->Devices & Media to initialize the media and add it to a Media Pool. Man omniminit for details.

Re: Replace old tape

aruns_s — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:43:50 GMT

Thanks for the reply.
I can't find an option to initialize the tape.Man pages for omnimiinit are not available

Re: Replace old tape

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:54:49 GMT

Spelling counts; it's omniminit so "man omniinit".

From memory but is should be close:
omniminit -init My_Drive My_Label -pool MyPool [-slot 3]

In any event, you should be able to (again from memory) from the xomni GUI -> Devices & Media -> Media -> Pools

Select a pool then
Actions -> Format