ACTIVE media simply means that it has been written to, it is not frozen,
suspended or FULL.
AVAILABLE media indicates that the media is not assigned to any media server
and therefore is considered "available" or "scratch" and may be re-used.
You are removing your tapes properly, what keeps them from being written to is
the fact that you have changed its residence to NON-robotic, so NBU will not
attempt to use it for subsequent backup jobs.
David
Quoting Jason Jin <jason AT dataprompt DOT com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have few question regarding media status
> and would appreciate your comments.
>
>
> 1. what is the correct procedure to remove the
> recently writtten tapes from the tape library.
>
> After physically
> removed the media . and re-inventory/update the rebots,
> the availalbe_media script still showing those tapes I
> just take out as "active" , what I'm missing here?
>
>
>
> 2. what's the differience between a media that is "available"
> and that is "active", I guss active mean when NBU assigned
> the volume to a classi (but unable to find the definiation in the
> documentation) , but when and how netbackup change the media's
> status from availale to active?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> jason
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