Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem with allocating media on Netbackup 4.5

2009-06-11 08:51:09
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem with allocating media on Netbackup 4.5
From: Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
To: david.egger AT external.thalesaleniaspace DOT com
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:47:59 -0500
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:36 AM, <david.egger AT external.thalesaleniaspace DOT com> wrote:

As we are running out of spare tapes, we have decided to reuse tapes that haven't reached their retention level yet, but will soon.
To do so, I ran the following :

bpimmedia -L -mediaid <media_id>
-> to check images on tape : no entity was found

vmquery -deassignbyid <media_id> <source_pool> 0


Uggh.  If you want to re-use a tape early, a much better way would be to expire the images that are on the tape. 

Do you think I have a Media manager or media database corruption ?


BTW, 4.5 has been unsupported for a long time.  An upgrade is in order...

There aren't too many people on this list still running 4.5 these days.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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