You actually don't need to dd to them before you bplabel them. You just
need to specify the -o option for bplabel, which forces an overwrite.
At 12:24 PM 9/8/00 -0500, David A. Chapa wrote:
>Actually I believe this still has the NBUDB header on
>the tape, and NBU will not reuse those.
>
>Each time you do a NBU DB backup the previous tape
>becomes "obsolete", so to speak, but the header remains
>
>I always do
>
>dd on those tapes that I need to re-use
>
>then bplabel.
>
>ex.
>
>dd if=/etc/hosts of=/tapedev/name
>tpunmount /tapedev/name
>bplabel -ev MEDIAID -d DENSITY -p POOLNAME
>
>I suppose you could just use -o option and bypass the
>dd, but old habits are hard to break.
>
>David
>
>Quoting Michael Wei <wei AT colltech DOT com>:
>
> >
> > To reuse NBU DB tape you have to manually deassign
>them.
> >
> > Use vmquery -deassignbyid option.
> >
> >
> > > From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Fri
>Sep 8 12:02:54 2000
> > > I have a pool of tapes which are used for NetBackup
>Database backup. I
> > > have too many of these tapes in the pool and want
>to move some to
> > > another pool for regular backup duty. First, I made
>sure that there were
> > > no recent backups to the media. Then, I did the
>following:
> > >
> > > bpexpdate -d 0 -ev CEI381
> > > vmdelete -m CEI381
> > >
> > > using the xvmadm GUI, I ejected the media to the
>library's import/export
> > > port, "deleted" the media id from the library
>inventory, and injected
> > > the media back into the library and moved it to the
>pool for regular
> > > backups.
> > >
> > > vmquery -m CEI381 -- showed it's status was 0x0
> > >
> > > When NetBackup 3.2 found the media was available
>for use it mounted it
> > > and issued the following message:
> > >
> > > img00 mdsi01 FREEZING media id CEI381, it contains
>NetBackup database
> > > backup data and cannot be used for backups
> > >
> > > Any suggestions??
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> >
> >
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