Try vmquery -deassignbyid 


On 4/12/05, Dongfang_Liao AT kaltire DOT com <Dongfang_Liao AT kaltire DOT com> 
wrote:
> You will have to move the tape from old media server to one of running media
> servers, then expire from there. For example:
>  
> bpmedia -movedb -m <media_id> -newserver <hostname> [-oldserver <hostname>]
> 
>  
> bpexpdate -m <mediaid> -d 0 -host <new server>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of JAJA 
> (Jamie
> Jamison)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:22 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Deassigning tapes written by a defunct media server
> 
> 
> Hello, I recently decommissioned a media server in our NetBackup
> environment. I now tapes coming back onsite from our offsite storage vendor
> that have fragments written to them by this media server that the master
> server will not deassign, so I have a bunch of tapes that have assigned
> times showing up in one of my volume pools and not being moved into the
> scratch volume pool when their images expire. Does anyone know how I can
> tell my master server to ignore the fact that it can't talk to this media
> server any more and go ahead and deassign these tapes? I've tried
>  
> bpexpdate -deassign empty -m <media-id> and it fails out with the error:
>  
> could not update media list, host is unreachable
> host is unreachable.
>  
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jamie Jamison
> 
> 
>