Only works up to 5.x, after you go to 6.0 its a little more work.
Justin.
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Jimenez, Daniel wrote:
> Hey guys
>
> Thanks for all your help guys. Vmquery -deassignbyid worked and the tape
> is now in the scratch pool. I am not sure why the bpexpdate command did
> not work but glad there is an alternative command when tapes freak out
> like this. Thanks again.
>
> Daniel Jimenez
> Data Protection Team
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eagle, Kent [mailto:KEagle AT WilmingtonTrust DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:41 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Cc: Jimenez, Daniel; jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate Issue
>
> Daniel/Justin,
>
> I know in 6.x all the databases are supposed to be on the master, but...
> Be sure to run the command(s) from the media server that wrote the tape.
> That should do the trick.
>
>
> Let us know how you fare,
>
> Kent Eagle
> MTS Infrastructure Engineer II, MCP, MCSE
> Tech Services / SMSS
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:27:41 -0500 (EST)
> From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate Issue
> To: "Jimenez, Daniel" <Daniel.Jimenez AT imb DOT com>
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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>
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Jimenez, Daniel wrote:
>
>> Hey guys
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a tape that no longer has valid images but shows up as a daily
>> tape with an assigned date in Netbackup. I attempted to bpexpdate the
>> tape but it comes back with "requested media id was not found in NB
>> media database and/or MM volume database". I attempted to change the
>> volume pool but it comes back with "change pool of xxxxxx failed:
>> cannot change volume pool for assigned volumes (91)". There is a
>> command that I found online "bpexpdate -ev <medai id> -d 0 -force
>> -host <media server>" and would like to know if this command would
>> work on Netbackup 5.1 MP? Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks.
>>
>> Daniel Jimenez
>> Data Protection Team
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Try bpexpdate -deassignempty - note though this should only be used as
> a
> last resort as it can make the images/catalog out of sync for the images
>
> on that tape ID.
>
> Justin.
>
>
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