On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:49:37AM -0500, Stump, Bob A wrote:
> Is there any way to find an expired image on a tape? NetBackup removes
> the catalog information concerning an expired image. The tape remains
> assigned to NetBackup until all images on the tape have expired.  There
> could be an expired image on a tape that you could bpimport and do a
> restore of the image. 

Right.

> You would first have to identify the tape and expire all active images
> on it before you could bpimport. Identifying the tape is the hard part
> when there are hundreds of possible tapes. I would think you would have
> to mount the tape and read it to see what images were on it.

True.  There's one additional optimization I can think of if you're
talking about a lot of tapes.  If an image on a volume expires, does the
'bpmedialist' figure for the size of data on the tape decrease?  If not,
you could sum the size of all image fragments on the volume and see if
it adds up to the volume total.  A discrepancy would indicate a gap for
an expired image, and it might be worthwhile to either import or
directly examine that volume.

> Another possible solution is to setup a temporary master server and
> bprecover an old catalog to it. Any other solutions?

Look at the tape, look at an old catalog.  I can't think of anything
else that would be worthwhile.

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