> 
>  Never ever trust available_media its never correct for 3.4.1 or 4.5(mp6)
> its so far off it makes me sick! I show many tapes as DB tapes that were
> never DB tapes and are written on current active - Maybe it's my upgrade
> from 3.4.1 to 4.5(mp6) - same bot same 2003 master same media server
> ljcisvrts name?

Since way back in the 3.2 (or earlier) timeframe, Veritas has had a
technote out on a patch to available_media.  In large environments,
without the patch you get too many tapes appearing as DBBACKUP.

However it's just a technote.  They've never incorporated that patch
into the actual distributed code.  So if you've ever applied it, it
disappears when you upgrade.  

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/199300.htm

An alternative rewrite of avaiable_media was posted on this list a few
weeks ago, also.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
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