I had this same issue trying to do a "year-end" catalog backup to send 
offsite for 7 years.  Turns out that I could not specify a specific media 
ID, and I couldn't run the command to copy one of my catalog media IDs 
either.  The only way I could make it work was to manually reconfigure the 
catalogs to use a different media ID, run the catalog, pull the "new" 
catalog out of the machine, and then reset my catalog media configuration to 
its original settings.

A major pain in the kiester, but I got what I wanted from it...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Keating" <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:31 AM
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery


Gah!

Scratch that again...it "succeeds" but ignored the media ID you specify,
and backs up to one of the pre-configured media.

Back to square one.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Keating
> Sent: February 10, 2006 10:12 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
>
>
> Disregard....
>
> Apparantly, specifying -m <MEDIAID> is all that's
> required...NBU figures out the rest.
>
> I was tripping it up, by trying to tell it to use a specific -tpath
>
> Paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Keating
> > Sent: February 10, 2006 9:43 AM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
> >
> > though from
> > the looks of it, it will require scripting something to load
> > the tape into a drive, identify the drive, pass that back to
> > the bpbackupdb, etc, etc...
>


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