[Veritas-bu] Expiring troublesome tapes

And if all this still fails, check to make sure none of these tapes are your
netbackup database backup tapes.
Steve

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From: Scott Kendall [mailto:Scott.Kendall AT ln.ssw.abbott DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:10 AM
To: thomas_gravizi AT steris DOT com
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Expiring troublesome tapes


When using the bpexpdate command you have to specify the host that contains
the media catalog for the media you are trying to expire, otherwise you will
get this error.  The following command will expire all images on the media
immediately and unassign it (add -force if you don't want the prompt).

bpexpdate -ev media_id -d 0 -host media_server

If you do not know which host this media has been assigned to, you can use
bpimmedia to see which server's catalog contains the images on the tape.

bpimmedia -mediaid media_id -L

If there are no images on the tape and it is still assigned, it may be
frozen.  You can use bpmedialist to see if it is frozen.  A frozen tape will
not be unassigned when the images expire.  If it is frozen, you can use
bpmedia to unfreeze it.

Hope this helps.


Scott Kendall
Hospital Products Division
Abbott Laboratories




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 02/06/2001 09:37 AM

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Greetings all,

I've been using the bpexpdate command with all the switches and cannot
solve my problem.  We have 4 tapes, dated in 1998 that I've been trying
to expire, but cannot.  Whenever I try to use the bpexpdate command, the
following message comes up:  "Requested media ID was not found in NB
media database and/or MM volume database".  I did do a report to see if
in fact it was true, and there were no records for the tapes, but they
are still assigned.

Is there a way (or a command) that I can expire the dates?

I have even tried to move them into a different pool, like the scratch
pool, and it states: "Change pool of XXXXXX failed:  Cannot change
volume pool for assigned volume (91)".  Any recommendations?

Thanks for your help!

Thomas Gravizi
Network Engineer
STERIS Corporation
thomas_gravizi AT steris DOT com
440.392.7630 - Direct
440.350.7078 - Fax

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