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[Veritas-bu] DB Backup tapes - how many?

2002-07-11 13:30:48
Subject: [Veritas-bu] DB Backup tapes - how many?
From: valcarcel AT caracas.oilfield.slb DOT com (Rafael Valcarcel)
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:30:48 -0400
If you want to use one of the tapes previously used for DB backups, as a 
normal tape for ordinary backups you
can use bplabel on the old DB backup tape.

Regards.
Rafael.

At 11:19 AM 7/11/2002 -0500, John Rothlisberger wrote:
>I modified the available_media per the tech doc, but they still
>show up as DBBACKUP.  I don't believe 2 of the tapes are being used
>as dbbackup because one shows 1 mount and the other 0.
>
>Also, bpmedialist -ev gives me:
>CHIMISC1:[admincmd] 11:17am >./bpmedialist -ev 000009
>requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume 
>database
>CHIMISC1:[admincmd] 11:17am >./bpmedialist -ev 000011
>requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume 
>database
>
>I also tried to bpexpdate -ev 000009 -d 0 and it comes back with the same
>errors.
>
>hmmmm
>
>John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:05 AM
> > To: John Rothlisberger; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] DB Backup tapes - how many?
> >
> >
> > John:
> >
> > NBU only uses a maximum of two destinations for the catalog
> > backup.  Chances
> > are if you identified this using the available media script
> > the results are
> > 'skewed' due to a timing issue.
> >
> > I'd run a bpsyncinfo -L to see what tapes you have allocated
> > for the catalog
> > backup.
> >
> > I'd also run bpmedialist -ev on all the tapes that came up
> > with the the
> > DBBACKUP type in the output of the script, just to manually
> > verify their
> > status.
> >
> > Then, you'd probably want to read this technote to fix
> > available_media.
> >
> > http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/199300.htm
> >
> > David
> >
> > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> > David A. Chapa
> > NetBackup Consultant
> > DataStaff, Inc.
> > http://www.datastaff.com
> > 847 413 1144
> > ---------------------------------------
> > http://www.NetBackupcentral.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of John
> > Rothlisberger
> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:47 AM
> > To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] DB Backup tapes - how many?
> >
> >
> > I have a whopping 10 available slots in my robot and 3 of
> > those are being
> > used by DBBACKUP tapes.  Is there a way to reduce the number used for
> > db backups and is there a way to free up some of those tapes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > > --
> > > John Rothlisberger
> > > Unix Systems Administrator
> > > jrothlisberger AT indeliq DOT com
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