All,
Richard Mansell, the fellow I found in the archives who had this
problem, replied off list with a fix. You use nbrbutil -dump to find
MDSAllocation for the tape in question. Then nbrbutil -releaseMDS + the
MDS number from the dump. Tape is now free and expired.
Thanks Richard and all who offered help.
Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf
> Of Brooks, Jason
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:13 PM
> To: Justin Piszcz
> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
>
> It's very strange indeed, seeing how the last write time,
> according to nbemmcmd was almost 1 year ago. And I can
> gaurantee that the server's been rebooted several times since
> then. Actually, it was rebooted yesterday, so I'm not sure
> what would still be hung up. I'll poke around and see if I
> can find the files you mention. Anyone know what type/where they are?
>
> Jason
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:59 AM
> > To: Brooks, Jason
> > Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> >
> > Very strange, if there is no JobID associated it with the
> job activity
> > monitor, try:
> >
> > 1. Cycling services.
> > 2. There are actually files where NetBackup keeps track of tapes in
> > the activity monitor, sometimes when things get stuck you need to
> > bp.kill_all and actually manually move/remove them and
> start services
> > back up.
> >
> > Not sure if this will help you with your specific issue though.
> >
> > Justin.
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Brooks, Jason wrote:
> >
> > > After Justin gave me the suggestion of altering the
> command line, I
> > > started getting somewhere. But now I'm stuck again. NBU
> > thinks these
> > > two tapes are in use. The EMM knows about the tapes, and
> per that
> > > information, they can actually be reused. I tried
> > bpexpdate on them,
> > > failed with this:
> > >
> > > requested media id is in use, cannot process request
> > >
> > > So, I started digging with google. Came across a problem
> from the
> > > archives, posted by Richard Mansell, April 6, 2006. He had tried
> > > similar things, and finally a bpmedialist -mcontents -m 000024 -L
> > > -host
> > > media1 (mine). Ran it, got the following in Activity Monitor:
> > >
> > > 3/28/2007 10:59:32 AM - awaiting resource 000024 Reason:
> > Media is in
> > > use., Media Server: N/A, Robot Number: 0, Robot Type: NONE,
> > Media ID:
> > > 000024, Drive Name: N/A, Volume Pool: N/A, Storage Unit:
> N/A, Drive
> > > Scan
> > > Host: N/A
> > >
> > > Robtest shows that there are no tapes in the drives. Both
> > tapes show
> > > this behavior. How can I make NBU think that there no
> > longer in use?
> > >
> > > BTW - these are not catalog tape but from my diff pool.
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > >> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
> > >> Brooks, Jason
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:18 AM
> > >> To: Justin Piszcz
> > >> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > >> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> > >>
> > >> Well, that gave me more to work with. Leaving off the
> old server
> > >> gave me the following error:
> > >>
> > >> "requested media id was not found in the EMM database"
> > >>
> > >> So, a little more digging.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Jason
> > >>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > >>> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On
> > >> Behalf Of Justin
> > >>> Piszcz
> > >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:05 AM
> > >>> To: Brooks, Jason
> > >>> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > >>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> > >>>
> > >>> Wrong syntax?
> > >>>
> > >>> Try this:
> > >>>
> > >>> bpmedia -m 000024 -movedb -newserver new-media-server
> -oldserver
> > >>> old-server
> > >>>
> > >>> I do not believe the oldserver is needed, just including it
> > >> for full
> > >>> documentation purposes.
> > >>>
> > >>> Justin.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Brooks, Jason wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I've been in the process of migrating a media server for
> > >>> the past week
> > >>>> or so. I've used the guide in Appendix A of the NBU
> > >> Media Manager
> > >>>> System Administrator's Guide for Windows without any
> significant
> > >>>> problem. However, I do have two recalcitrant tapes that won't
> > >>>> reassign to the new media server. Here's what's happening:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 1) Look for tapes assigned to the old server:
> > >>>> D:\Program
> > >>> Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedialist.exe -mlist
> > >>>> -l -h media1
> > >>>> 000024 *NULL* 1 20 1141664428 1142876367 1205774540 0
> > >> 113749351 102
> > >>>> 102 10 4 0 0
> > >>>> 1024 0 1777569 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> > >>>> 000072 *NULL* 1 20 1142060157 1142879077 1205736395 0
> > >>> 45324144 46 46
> > >>>> 10
> > >>>> 4 0 0 10
> > >>>> 24 0 708298 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Good. Two tapes to move.
> > >>>> 2) Try the move:
> > >>>> D:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedia
> > >> -movedb -ev
> > >>>> 000024 -oldserver media1 -newserver media2 invalid error number
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Same happens for tape 000072. All other tapes
> relocated without
> > >>>> incident. And I've checked to make sure these tapes
> > >>> weren't frozen -
> > >>>> they're active.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Suggestions?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks,
> > >>>> Jason
> > >>>>
> > >>>> ------------
> > >>>> Jason Brooks
> > >>>> Computer Systems Engineer
> > >>>> IITS - Longwood University
> > >>>> voice - (434) 395-2034
> > >>>> fax - (434) 395-2035
> > >>>> mailto:<brooksje at longwood.edu>
> > >>>>
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