Alok:

Thanks for the reference, but the question was regarding the 'flags' 
parameter, not 'status'  ;-)

No reference to flags is shown in the vmquery manpage :(

Best regards,

--PLB

At 11:59 AM 05/01/2002 -0400, Kumar, Alok wrote:
>This is from vmquery man page
>
>       status    Applies only to media that is assigned to NetBackup or
>                 Storage Migrator.
>
>                 A status of 0x0 means it is assigned to NetBackup regular
>                 backups.
>
>                 A status of 0x1 means it is assigned to NetBackup database
>                 backups.
>
>                 A status of 0x2 means it is assigned to Storage Migrator
>
>Hope this clears the issue.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Alok
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Winkeler, Paul [mailto:PWinkeler AT officemax DOT com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 7:22 AM
>To: 'plb AT iotk DOT com'
>Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Meaning of "flags" field from vmquery -a -X ?
>
>
>Peter
>
>An experiment I did this morning may shed some light on the "flags" field
>reported on by the -X option:
>
>Running with -X, vmquery yielded a flags value of 0x1 for all tapes, except
>one: S02491 which had a value of 0x0
>Running without the -X (using -w instead), S02491 was not listed at all!
>Which is good, because I deleted that volume from the database just the
>other day.
>
>So my theory right now is this flags field indicates which volumes have been
>deleted and, once the database gets cleaned up, will be removed.
>
>That's my story, and I am sticking with it until a better one comes along
>:-)
>
>  PaulW
>
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