Hi Endre,
Catalogue tapes will not be deleted, if you do it in
this way, pls go to /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/admincmd
then de assign these tapes by using their id, then u
can delete it.
Pavan
--- "Whelan, Patrick" <Patrick.Whelan at colt.net> wrote:

> Try running the first try again only use -d hcart2.
> According to your vmquery output it is a ?" tape not
> dlt. If that doesn't' work try HCART2.
> 
>  
> 
> Patrick Whelan 
> NetBackup Specialist 
> Architect & Engineering 
> +44 20 7863 5243 
> 
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> - Martin Niem?ller 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu]
> On Behalf Of Szekely-Bencedi, Endre (Genworth,
> Contractor)
> Sent: 13 April 2007 12:02
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Problem recycling old CATALOG
> tapes
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
>  
> 
> I've been having some problems with my backups since
> a week. I found this list googleing around, hope you
> can spare a few minutes to read this and maybe help
> me.
> 
>  
> 
> I don't know much of backups really, I needed to
> start and handle media a few weeks ago. We usually
> have 12-15 tapes filled each day with backups, half
> of it goes ofsite with a month retention (including
> catalog tapes), half we keep here.... talking of
> daily backups of course.
> 
> The guy before me showed me that sometimes tapes
> don't get deassigned after expiration; he told me
> roughly how to check for this and how to
> deassign/expire a tape manually.
> 
> He also told me I should place old catalog tapes
> back to scratch pool.
> 
>  
> 
> Now. As I started to understand more about
> netbackup, I realised we have lots of frozen tapes.
> Tapes that always get assigned but don't get
> written. I have turned on bptm log and noticed these
> are all old catalog tapes (googled the error
> message). The problem is, since we always put old
> catalog tapes back to scratch pool, the next day's
> catalog tape will be a random tape. So, we just end
> up with more and more catalog tapes that we cannot
> write on. I guess this was just a mistake noone
> noticed before...
> 
>  
> 
> Anyway. I have unfrozen the tape and the next day it
> got frozen again. Then I have found some docs saying
> that if you want to recycle a catalog tape you need
> to relabel it. But, relabeling doesn't work for
> me... tried 2 methods so far:
> 
>  
> 
> Z:\>bplabel -ev 000188 -d dlt
> Requested number of drives are not configured
> 
>  
> 
> in the Activity Monitor I have:
> 
>  
> 
> 12/04/2007 14:38:40 - begin Label
> 12/04/2007 14:38:40 - started process bplabel (976)
> 12/04/2007 14:38:40 - mounting 000188
> 12/04/2007 14:38:41 - Error bplabel(pid=976)
> Requested number of drives are not configured
> 12/04/2007 14:38:41 - end Label; elapsed time:
> 00:00:01
> error requesting media (tpreq)(98)
> 
>  
> 
> Then I tried to relabel using the GUI:
> 
> 12/04/2007 14:41:49 - begin Label
> 12/04/2007 14:41:49 - started process bplabel
> (77988)
> 12/04/2007 14:41:49 - mounting 000188
> 12/04/2007 14:42:39 - mounted; mount time: 00:00:50
> 12/04/2007 14:42:42 - expected media 000188; found
> NetBackup media
> 12/04/2007 14:42:42 - end Label; elapsed time:
> 00:00:53
> media manager found wrong tape in drive(93)
> 
>  
> 
> Okay, I know sometimes you can get error if the
> media type is different - I am not even sure how to
> check what it is...
> 
> For example I got this tape:
> 
> C:\>vmquery -m 000200
>
================================================================================
> 
> media ID:              000200
> media type:            1/2" cartridge tape 2 (14)
> barcode:               000200L2
> media description:     Added by Media Manager
> volume pool:           SCRATCH (3)
> robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
> robot number:          0
> robot slot:            9
> robot control host:    fileserver1.domain
> volume group:          00_000_TLD
> vault name:            ---
> vault sent date:       ---
> vault return date:     ---
> vault slot:            ---
> vault session id:      ---
> vault container id:    -
> created:               19/07/2005 17:35:25
> assigned:              ---
> last mounted:          13/04/2007 10:34:03
> first mount:           20/07/2005 10:21:40
> expiration date:       ---
> number of mounts:      65
> max mounts allowed:    ---
>
================================================================================
> 
>  
> 
> This tape is one of the many I am keeping an eye on
> since the past days and can't get to write them. I
> also tried to delete it using 'vmdelete', hoped
> netbackup will forget about it but it didn't - at
> the next backup try the tape got frozen again
> because "it contains VERITAS NetBackup (tm) database
> backup data and cannot be used for backups."
> 
>  
> 
> If you got any ideas, please don't hesitate to help
> me.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Endre
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
>
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