Humble apologies, my friend ;-)

The issue I was having did not involve DBBACKUP tapes.  What was happening for 
me (and it only happpened a few times) was that a full volume that had been 
sent offsite with a 5 year retention level would suddenly appear in the list of 
active volumes with a 3 month retention level.  I thought my media database had 
become corrupt.  The robot type was listed correctly as NONE, but the byte 
count was wrong.  When I scrutinized the output a little more thoroughly 
however, I found the same tape ID listed a second time with all the correct 
details.  Running available_media without the mod produced the correct output 
consistently. The glitch was repeatable the times it happened, so I finally 
stopped using the modified version...

-Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Worman [mailto:rob AT colltech DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:54 PM
To: Conner, Neil
Cc: 'Eric.Martens AT Sun DOT COM'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] available_media status DBBACKUP


"Conner, Neil" wrote:
> 
> Have you modified the available_media script?  A little while ago, someone 
> posted a modification to speed it up, but the mod occassionally causes errors 
> in output...
> 
> -Neil

As the person who posted that modification, I resent that!  :-)

check out
<http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/199300.htm> for more info on this.