I think part of the problem may be from the very common confusion of expiry
dates. The expiration date in the vmquery is the date the TAPE will expire.
I.E. not be useable anymore, this is hardly ever used. The other expiry date
is the date the images on the tape expire at which point the tape becomes
reusable for further backups (assuming it was full at this point). I hope
this helps. 

Regards,
 
Patrick Whelan
VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX.
VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for Windows.

netbackup AT whelan-consulting.co DOT uk


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of naymyotun
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Fail to update in bpmedialist after assign by vmquery
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Really appreciate your answers here,Marianne. In fact these tapes (TAPE1,
....., TAPE10 ) have been running for some time and frequently freeze and
status code 96 appear. So I manually took out all those 11 tapes from the
library manually and replaced with the new tapes which are same bar code (
TAPE1,..., TAPE11 ). Then after some day later, those TAPE1,...,TAPE10 were
totally dissappear from the "bpmedialist" and all bkp jobs belongs to them
were not able bkp.When I chk, I noticed "mounting TAPE1,....,TAPE11 " in the
job status and never see the "mounted TAPE1,.....,TAPE11"  in order to run
the job. So the job is pending " mounting TAPE1,....., TAPE11" for long
hours and never proceed to "mounted TAPE1,...,TAPE11" stage.

             The problem is within this "PLUTO_LTO" volume pool.

( 1 ) Is this changing TAPE1, .. ,TAPE11 could be the problem?

( 2 ) I changed back the orignial TAPE1,...,TAPE11 and bpmedialist still
never show these tapes. Should I change back the blank tapes with same bar
code and same media ID tapes to the library ?

( 3 ) Now i temporarily stopped backing up these servers. Should I restart
these bkp jobs using original TAPES or NEW TAPES with same bar code and same
media ID?

Many Thanks Marianne. Besides this TAPE11 , all other tapes have no expire
date in the vmquery. 
 

Netbackupserver# vmquery -m TAPE07
============================================================================
====
media ID:               TAPE07
media type:            1/2" cartridge tape (6)
barcode:                TAPE07
description:            Added by Media Manager
volume pool:           PLUTO_LTO (37)
robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
robot number:          2
robot slot:              78
robot host:            Netbackupserver
volume group:          00_002_TLD
created:               Thu Mar 31 15:21:59 2005
assigned:              ---
last mounted:          Tue Sep 09 10:53:22 2008
first mount:           Sat Apr 02 09:20:36 2005
expiration date:       ---
number of mounts:      937
max mounts allowed:    ---

This is the expire tape when i chk by bpmedialist but not in vmquery -m.

Netbackupserver# vmquery -m TAPE11
============================================================================
====
media ID:              TAPE11
media type:            1/2" cartridge tape (6)
barcode:               TAPE11
description:           Added by Media Manager
volume pool:           PLUTO_LTO (37)
robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
robot number:          2
robot slot:            66
robot host:            Netbackupserver
volume group:          00_002_TLD
created:               Mon Sep 27 17:53:19 2004
assigned:              Sun Aug 17 01:35:33 2008
last mounted:          Tue Sep 09 16:11:15 2008
first mount:           Tue Oct 05 14:21:49 2004
expiration date:       Wed Oct 14 18:06:20 2009
number of mounts:      1028
max mounts allowed:    ---
status:                0x0

Here is the output of TAPE11 which show expire by bpmedialist -U

Server Host =   PLUTO

 id        rl     images   allocated           last updated        density
kbytes restores
                  vimages   expiration          last read           <-------
STATUS ------->
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
TAPE11   3     22    08/17/2008 01:35  09/09/2008 15:16    hcart  297765696
0
                    22   10/10/2008 15:16        N/A
EXPIRED

Meaning that two databases are not syn each other .

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