About a year ago, I got frustrated enough with available_media that I took a
few minutes and figured out why it was so stupid and slow.  Once I figured
it out, I took a few hours and wrote a completely new version of
available_media in Perl that's much, much faster and correctly reports the
status of all the media.  I also have it report EMPTY media (i.e. tapes that
have no valid Netbackup images but have not been returned to the pool of
AVAILABLE media, which get reported as DBBACKUP media in Veritas'
available_media), and the command required to "fix" these media is listed at
the end of the report.

If anyone wants a copy of this script, let me know and I'll email it to you.

~Jeff

On Monday, June 23, 2003 3:19 PM, James Wood wrote:

> Nice! I have not yet run in to this problem, but upcoming 
> projects almost
> certainly would have. Thanks bunches!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darren Dunham" <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
> To: <Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] available_media givies wrong info
> 
> 
> > Hmm.  There's this fix for the available_media script.
> > The fix is for 3.1.1, but apparantly is needed in 3.2 and
> > 3.4. I just looked on a 4.5 machine and the fix isn't on
> > it either.
> >
> > http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/199300.htm
> >
> > I imagine not all servers need the fix to function 
> > properly, but I've worked with some that definitely did.