Help! I'm getting confused here between what entries should be in what
databases for our tapes.

Tape <media> is in our L700.
vmquery -M <master> -m <media> shows the tape.
bpmedialist -ev <media> reports "requested media id was not found in NB
media database and/or MM volume database" for each media server.

Does this mean I've got a problem - there seems to be a mismatch here.  It
seems to me that this means NetBackup doesn't know about these tapes & so
will never use them, so they are just taking up space.  But I have no idea
how this occurred nor how to verify what these tapes are or what is on them.

I have taken one of these tapes that I know is not in use and run the
following :
        vmquery -M <master> -deassignbyid <media> <pool> <status>
        vmdelete -M <master> -m <media>
        vmadd -h <master> -m <media> -rt tld -mt dlt -rn 1 -rh
<media-server> -rc1 <slot> -rc2 0 -p 8 -b <media>

bpmedialist still doesn't report it ... now I am confused!

Any ideas?  Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious here...

thanks, Phil

Phil Weber
IT Infrastructure Unix Systems Engineer

Phone: 01384 26 4136
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