bpmedialist only queries the mediaDB on the Media 
Server.  The mediaDB contains information about the 
Media that the Media Server has written to, that's it. 
 The database you want to query to see if you have 
tapes in the pools is the volume database.

vmquery -a -bx | more 

from your master (or the volume database host) will 
show  you what you want.

Alternatively and perhaps a more appropriate way of 
viewing this is via the GUI, Media/Device Mgmt.



Quoting Konstantin 'Kastus' Shchuka 
<kastus AT epocrates DOT com>:

> I'm getting error 96 while attempting to do a backup. 
I have two volumes in
> a pool
> according to vmquery :
> 
> bash-2.03# vmquery -p 2
> 
=======================================================
=========================
> media ID:              PDB001
> media type:            DLT cartridge tape 2 (16)
> barcode:               --------
> description:           production database
> volume pool:           prod_db (2)
> robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
> robot number:          0
> robot slot:            3
> robot host:            netbackup
> volume group:          00_000_TLD
> created:               Thu Jul 12 20:38:57 2001
> assigned:              Sun Jul 22 03:03:32 2001
> last mounted:          Wed Jul 25 16:38:46 2001
> first mount:           Thu Jul 12 20:44:57 2001
> expiration date:       ---
> number of mounts:      10
> max mounts allowed:    ---
> status:                0x0
> 
=======================================================
=========================
> media ID:              PDB003
> media type:            DLT cartridge tape 2 (16)
> barcode:               --------
> description:           production database
> volume pool:           prod_db (2)
> robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
> robot number:          0
> robot slot:            4
> robot host:            netbackup
> volume group:          00_000_TLD
> created:               Fri Jul 27 00:17:13 2001
> assigned:              ---
> last mounted:          ---
> first mount:           ---
> expiration date:       ---
> number of mounts:      0
> max mounts allowed:    ---
> 
=======================================================
=========================
> bash-2.03# 
> 
> 
> But if I run bpmedialist it shows only one volume 
from that pool which is
> full.
> 
> bash-2.03# bpmedialist -p prod_db
> Server Host = netbackup
> 
>  id     rl  images   allocated        last updated   
   density  kbytes
> restores
>            vimages   expiration       last read      
   <------- STATUS
> ------->
> 
-------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------
> PDB001   0      7   07/22/2001 03:03  07/25/2001 
02:53    dlt2  99906871   
>    0
>                 6   08/01/2001 02:53  07/25/2001 
16:38    FULL
> 
> bash-2.03# 
> 
> 
> How can I make bpmedialist see the other volume in a 
pool?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Konstantin 'Kastus' Shchuka
> Unix System Administrator
> ePocrates Inc.
> tel 650.232.4886
> fax 650.592.6995
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