Hey guys

Thanks for all your help guys. Vmquery -deassignbyid worked and the tape
is now in the scratch pool. I am not sure why the bpexpdate command did
not work but glad there is an alternative command when tapes freak out
like this. Thanks again.  

Daniel Jimenez 
Data Protection Team 


-----Original Message-----
From: Eagle, Kent [mailto:KEagle AT WilmingtonTrust DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:41 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Cc: Jimenez, Daniel; jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate Issue

Daniel/Justin,

I know in 6.x all the databases are supposed to be on the master, but...
Be sure to run the command(s) from the media server that wrote the tape.
That should do the trick.


Let us know how you fare,

Kent Eagle
MTS Infrastructure Engineer II, MCP, MCSE
Tech Services / SMSS

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:27:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate Issue
To: "Jimenez, Daniel" <Daniel.Jimenez AT imb DOT com>
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Jimenez, Daniel wrote:

> Hey guys
>
>
>
> I have a tape that no longer has valid images but shows up as a daily 
> tape with an assigned date in Netbackup. I attempted to bpexpdate the 
> tape but it comes back with "requested media id was not found in NB 
> media database and/or MM volume database". I attempted to change the 
> volume pool but it comes back with "change pool of xxxxxx failed: 
> cannot change volume pool for assigned volumes (91)". There is a 
> command that I found online "bpexpdate -ev <medai id> -d 0 -force 
> -host <media server>" and would like to know if this command would 
> work on Netbackup 5.1 MP? Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks.
>
> Daniel Jimenez
> Data Protection Team
>
>
>
>
>
>

Try  bpexpdate -deassignempty - note though this should only be used as
a 
last resort as it can make the images/catalog out of sync for the images

on that tape ID.

Justin.






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