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I have one that is stumping me and was wondering if anyone else has seen
this, or if I am just missing something really obvious. I ask a lot of
questions in this post. Let me say ahead of time, I appreciate all
responses and your patience.
We have a couple of tape libraries. Lately, when we look at our available
media reports in the morning, we see a lot (more than 100) tapes that are
reporting as FULL. But, vault, which we run daily and tell to eject
original backups (we are not doing dupes right now) is not ejecting these
tapes.
Furthermore, when I run a media contents report, where NetBackup actually
loads the tape and looks at the header info, I get information about the
image. But when I run the images on media report, either through the GUI or
command line via bpimmedia -l -mediaid ###### I get a no entity was found,
regardless of whether or not the image has expired. But if I cd to
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/hostname I can see the header and file list
files for this image.
So my questions are:
Why is vault not ejecting these tapes?
Why does the Images on Media report not know about these images? (I'll
answer my own question: Because the vmquery -m ###### reports volume does
not exist in database)
Why are the tapes just reporting a status of full and not being vaulted?
(Is this again because Vault will only eject a tape if it is in the
database?)
If they aren't being vaulted and are staying in the library and are full,
they are basically just taking up space right and are worthless? (except I
do believe I could get restores off of them)
Where do I begin to troubleshoot this?
Since Veritas doesn't have info for these images in its database how can I
manually load these tapes and have Veritas inventory them?
If I do that, will vault then pick them up on its next run, as long as the
last backup was within the last week?
Thanks,
Taylor
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have one that is stumping me and was wondering if anyone
else has seen this, or if I am just missing something really obvious. I
ask a lot of questions in this post. Let me say ahead of time, I
appreciate all responses and your patience.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We have a couple of tape libraries. Lately, when we
look at our available media reports in the morning, we see a lot (more than
100) tapes that are reporting as FULL. But, vault, which we run daily and
tell to eject original backups (we are not doing dupes right now) is not
ejecting these tapes. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Furthermore, when I run a media contents report, where
NetBackup
actually loads the tape and looks at the header info, I get information about
the image. But when I run the images on media report, either through the
GUI
or command line via bpimmedia -l -mediaid ###### I get a no
entity was found, regardless of whether or not the image has expired. But
if I cd to /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/hostname I can see the header and
file list files for this image.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So my questions are: </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Why is vault not ejecting these tapes?
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Why does the Images on Media report not know about these
images? (I'll answer my own question: Because the vmquery -m ######
reports volume does not exist in database) </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Why are the tapes just reporting a status of full and not
being vaulted? (Is this again because Vault will only eject a tape if it
is in the database?) </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If they aren't being vaulted and are staying in the
library and are full, they are basically just taking up space right and are
worthless? (except I do believe I could get restores off of them)
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Where do I begin to troubleshoot this?
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Since Veritas doesn't have info for these images in
its database how can I manually load these tapes and have Veritas inventory
them?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If I do that, will vault then pick them up on its next run,
as long as the last backup was within the last week?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Taylor</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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