Winner! I have ran it and it has updated all media servers successfully
and i now can expire the media.

Cheers

Dave Markham wrote:
> Dude you are right. The problem is i had a guy next to me who was doing
> the upgrade and knew all the steps ( apparently ). As im new to 6 im
> only just finding out these things now. I have read the documentation
> since and as you say it says you can run it but doesnt mention if you
> can run it after backups have been working on those 5.x media servers.
>
> The reason the media servers were not upgraded to 6 was totally down to
> stupid management and change control where they only asked for the
> master server to be upgraded and as it wasn't written on a piece of
> paper that the media servers should be done too they were not allowed to be.
>
> I think im going to try and run it now anyway and see what happens.
>
>
> bob944 wrote:
>   
>>> Im have recently upgraded my master from 5 to 6 and am now trying to
>>> free up some tapes by expiring them.
>>>
>>> When i do bpexpdate -m <media id> -d 0 <tape> im getting an 
>>> error saying
>>>
>>> "could no deassign media due to Media Manager Error"
>>>
>>> I have also tried using the gui, set the expiration to today with a
>>>     
>>>       
>> few
>>   
>>     
>>> minutes time later than current time and the tape hasnt expired.
>>>
>>> Someone mentioned on a previous problem had i ran nbpushdata
>>> -modify_5x_hosts which i hadnt and am wondering can i run that now? I
>>> did run the nbupushdata -add command after my upgrade which worked.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Also
>>   
>>     
>>> do i need to do anything on the media servers which are still at 5?
>>>     
>>>       
>> and in the next posting:
>>   
>>     
>>> only be used by that media server but i assumed the upgrade 
>>> brought all data into the EMM database
>>>     
>>>       
>> Not to beat you up, but why on earth would you upgrade without following
>> the release notes, the release impact bulletin, the upgrade guide and
>> the installation manual, each of which has page after page of "when and
>> how and in what order to run nbpushdata" information?  Oh, and the
>> commands manual, too--which has one of the better explanations of
>> nbpushdata and especially the -modify_5x_hosts option.
>>
>> What it doesn't say is if it's too late to do it without falling back to
>> your pre-upgrade backup.  Since the purpose of -modify_5x_hosts seems to
>> be to tell the master that it needs to keep updating the media db on the
>> media server, maybe that means that no tapes from that/those 5.x servers
>> have been touched and you can run -modify_5x_hosts now with no penalty.
>> Or not.  I'd open a support call and find out, or back out the upgrade
>> and do it by the book.
>>
>> Considering that you didn't a) upgrade the media server to 6 and do a
>> -add, nor b) leave the media at 5.x and tell the master to use the media
>> server's media db in situ, I'm not surprised that expirations and
>> deassigns aren't working--those tapes truly aren't in the EMM database
>> nor being managed in 5.x fashion.
>>
>> If all the above really is the issue, I'm interested in the recovery.
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
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