Lest not we forget bpimmedia -mediaid !



On Friday 06 December 2002 11:53 am, Terry Green wrote:
> My understanding is that Volume Manager (volmgr) is a physical media
> management system, whose facilities netbackup uses.   Suspect that two
> different sets of developers build volume manager and netbackup (which iirc
> used to be called 'backup plus' - hence the 'bp' names for all the
> commands).    Volume manager is not exclusive to netbackup, I believe it is
> also used by Veritas's HSM product as well.
>
> Volume manager uses 'media id' as the term of reference, hence '-m' when
> using volume manager commands.   This would always correspond to the
> external identifier (bar code) on the tape.   Volume manager understands
> that a particular tape is 'assigned' to a product (eg in use by Netbackup
> or HSM), but that's about it.
>
> I've only used 3.4.1, but my experience has been that volume manager uses
> 'media id'  - hence -m,   and netbackup has the concept of the external
> volser (barcode) (hence -ev) and the volser actually on the header of the
> tape (placed there by bplabel).
>
>
> Just my 2cents
>
> Terry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Costa [mailto:chris.costa AT veritas DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:23 AM
> To: 'Donaldson, Mark'; 'Rolf'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NB4.5 difference between -m and -ev
>
>
> It appears that whenever you are using a command from the */volmgr/bin
> directory you need the -m switch, but when you are using a command from
> netbackup/bin/admicmd directory you need the -ev switch.
>
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donaldson, Mark [mailto:Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:54 AM
> To: 'Rolf'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NB4.5 difference between -m and -ev
>
>
> One of the many and varied aspects of Netbackup is that their command-line
> switches vary greatly from command to command.  Consistency was not their
> strong suit.
>
> -M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rolf [mailto:rolfcolmer AT hotmail DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:22 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NB4.5 difference between -m and -ev
>
>
> Can anyone explain the difference between the -m en -ev parameters when
> using the command prompt? I allways thought that -m was for Master Server,
> but it can also be used for Media ID?
>
> Greets,
>
> Rolf