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[Veritas-bu] expiring tapes

2004-05-04 13:45:42
Subject: [Veritas-bu] expiring tapes
From: jrmajor AT TexasChildrensHospital DOT org (Major, Rusty)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:45:42 -0500
Further, you can run bpmedialist to get the media server that owns the tape:

bpmedialist -ev c0267d

it will return a few lines, the first of which will be "Server Host = <media 
server>".

Add -host <media server> to the end of your bpexpdate command and you should be 
in business.

Rusty

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:41 AM
> To: Laura.Duffy AT iibbank DOT ie
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] expiring tapes
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:31:47PM +0100, 
> Laura.Duffy AT iibbank DOT ie wrote:
> > We run NetBackup 3.4 and I want to expire 2 tapes.
> >  
> > They are assigned according to the time assigned column in 
> media & device
> > management but they have  0 mounts.
> >  
> > How can I delete these tapes so I can use them again?
> >  
> > # bpexpdate -ev C0267D -d 0
> > Are you SURE you want to delete C0267D y/n (n)? y
> > requested media id was not found in NB media database 
> and/or MM volume
> > database
> 
> If the tape is not owned by the media server you're running 
> this command
> on, that's the error you get.  You may need to add the media server
> parameter.
> 
> -- 
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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