Paul's suspicion is the correct one - the "flags" value is an
indication of whether or not the volDB record has been deleted.

--- "Kumar, Alok" <akumar AT refco DOT com> wrote:
> This is from vmquery man page 
> 
>       status    Applies only to media that is assigned to NetBackup
> or
>                 Storage Migrator.
> 
>                 A status of 0x0 means it is assigned to NetBackup
> regular
>                 backups.
> 
>                 A status of 0x1 means it is assigned to NetBackup
> database
>                 backups.
> 
>                 A status of 0x2 means it is assigned to Storage
> Migrator
> 
> Hope this clears the issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alok
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Winkeler, Paul [mailto:PWinkeler AT officemax DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 7:22 AM
> To: 'plb AT iotk DOT com'
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Meaning of "flags" field from vmquery -a -X
> ?
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
> An experiment I did this morning may shed some light on the "flags"
> field
> reported on by the -X option:
> 
> Running with -X, vmquery yielded a flags value of 0x1 for all tapes,
> except
> one: S02491 which had a value of 0x0
> Running without the -X (using -w instead), S02491 was not listed at
> all!
> Which is good, because I deleted that volume from the database just
> the
> other day.
> 
> So my theory right now is this flags field indicates which volumes
> have been
> deleted and, once the database gets cleaned up, will be removed.
> 
> That's my story, and I am sticking with it until a better one comes
> along
> :-)
> 
>  PaulW
> 
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> 
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