I have a similar situation. I have a tape that shows up in the media
list in the gui, but I can't delete it or anything. I get the message
that the volume is not in the NB database. 

-----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 Robert
Nusser
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 04:58
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media id's not appearing in NB media database

Hi all,

I am having problems with some of my media id's not appearing in the "NB
media database". I have attempted bplabeling the tape again, and then
assigning it with vmquery -assignbyid. Alas it seems I am back where I
started and I can see the tape using vmquery, but I cannot see the tape
using bpmedialist, and thus can also not freeze and unfreeze the tape. I
also know the backups will fail on those tapes that I cannot see with
the bp commands.

I only have one standalone Veritas Netbackup server with the tape drives
attached to it. Consequently supplying the -h switch to bpmedialist with
the host name doesn't help either.

So I would love to know how I can get this media id added to the NB
media database?


# /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -m MPDY56
========================================================================
====
media ID:              MPDY56
media type:            DLT cartridge tape 2 (16)
barcode:               --------
description:           Added by NetBackup
volume pool:           MISPD (6)
robot type:            NONE - Not Robotic (0)
volume group:          ---
created:               Mon Oct 31 22:08:37 2005
assigned:              Mon Jan 23 14:26:10 2006
last mounted:          Mon Jan 23 14:33:58 2006
first mount:           Mon Oct 31 22:08:38 2005
expiration date:       ---
number of mounts:      3
max mounts allowed:    ---
status:                0x0
========================================================================
====

# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedialist -ev MPDY56 requested
media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume database


Thanks,
Robert




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