Hi Ueli,

You are absolutely right.
I read the error message wrongly. I thought "media id is not in 
Netbackup volume pool" means "not in any Netbackup pool" but it actually 
refers to THAT pool called "NetBackup". My English problem.

Thanks mate!
Alan



Ueli Schweizer wrote:
> Hi Alan
> 
> As I know all tapes used for the offline catalog backup have to be in the
> NetBackup pool, all tapes used for the online catalog backup have to be in
> the CatalogBackup pool.
> 
> Ueli Schweizer
> CTO
> 
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> 
> ...we make life on backup easy-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Alan [mailto:d1 at ms.unimelb.edu.au] 
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. September 2006 10:13
> An: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Betreff: [Veritas-bu] catalog backup: media id not in volume pool
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed NB 6.0. When I was trying to configure offline catalog 
> backup to use a tape (id=000190), I got the following error:
>       "media id is not in Netbackup volume pool" (status 178)
> 
> However the id was indeed in the "CatalogBackup" pool. In fact vmquery 
> reports:
> 
> [root at puffer ~]# vmquery -m 000190
> ============================================================================
> ====
> media ID:              000190
> media type:            1/2" cartridge tape 3 (24)
> barcode:               000190
> media description:     Catalog Backup Tape
> volume pool:           CatalogBackup (3)
> robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
> robot number:          0
> robot slot:            14
> robot control host:    xxxx.ms.unimelb.edu.au
> volume group:          000_00000_TLD
> vault name:            ---
> vault sent date:       ---
> vault return date:     ---
> vault slot:            ---
> vault session id:      ---
> vault container id:    -
> created:               Mon Sep  4 17:53:21 2006
> assigned:              ---
> last mounted:          Tue Sep  5 14:44:01 2006
> first mount:           Tue Sep  5 14:44:01 2006
> expiration date:       ---
> number of mounts:      1
> max mounts allowed:    ---
> ============================================================================
> ====
> 
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks
> Alan
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