Author: nantel AT ecopiabio DOT com (Mathieu Nantel)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:37:53 -0400
Good day NBU admins, I started this backup job which didn't fit on the tape I was trying to have it fit on (resulting in the job failing because it couldn't load another tape), and I would like to re
Author: Robert.Stump AT dla DOT mil (Stump, Robert (Contractor) (DRMS))
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:47:45 -0400
If you cancel a job correctly or if a backup job fails then netbackup will expire the image and the tape section will again be available for reuse. If you check the all logs report you can see the st
Author: scoco AT arl.army DOT mil (Coco, Samuel (Cont, ARL/CISD))
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:47:45 -0400
In our experiences - if the job doesn't successfully complete either with a status of 0 or 1 - then the media images are not 'remembered' by the application and the tape is freed of the image(s). So
Author: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com (Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:04:44 -0600
"bpimmedia -mediaid <tapenum>" will show you all images on a specific tape - you can check if NB is tracking this image. "bpexpdate -backupid <bkid> -d 0 -force" will force expire that image if you n
Author: nantel AT ecopiabio DOT com (Mathieu Nantel)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:16:47 -0400
Ok. It looks like I can't expire the job because it's just not there. However, there's this report generated by the available_media script that still claims that the tape is full (if that job wasn't
Author: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com (Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:22:37 -0600
I have no confirmation of this but I've always had the sneaking suspicion that the fragments of a failed job still occupy the tape, but are unusable, until that tape expires. One option you have is t
Author: vljohnson AT bpa DOT gov (Johnson, Lee - CIDS-2)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:29:15 -0700
We have found the same thing. We have noticed also that the media databases, if separate from the master server, will retain data from failed jobs on tapes. We routinely check for this and deassign a
That's pretty much a hard requirement by the tape technology. Even if it wanted to, NB couldn't reuse the space in the middle of the tape without erasing later (valid) portions. Even if it could, th
Author: bedros.geyoghlian AT sbcglobal DOT net (Bedros Geyoghlian)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:10:01 -0700
Maybe but I don't think so. What I think happened: bptm on the media server set the status to FULL because it reached the EOT marker assuming another tape would get loaded to continue the job but the
Author: scottd AT HanoverDirect DOT com (Deiter Scott)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:01:48 -0400
Trying to get a handle on how to use these reports. GUI is not available while I'm on call at home(silly dial-up) the reports on media (Gui report) shows 22 files on mediaid U00077 bpmedialist -mcont
Author: Dave Markham" <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net (Dave Markham)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:09:19 +0100
Notes from my blog you may find useful a.. bpimmedia -U -mediaid <media id> - will list images and fragments on a tape. Replace -U with -L vmquery -a - gives info on each tape bpexpdate -backupid <ba
Author: jrmajor AT TexasChildrensHospital DOT org (Major, Rusty)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:43:08 -0500
How do you check for these jobs? Do you have a script, or just manually keep track of all failed jobs and go from there? As a side note, I've seen NBU use the same tape again after it has failed. I t
So Mark is correct...if there are failed jobs during a backup session that space on tape is not reclaimed until the last image on the tape expires and the entire tape is available for reuse. I believ
Author: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com (Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:00:51 -0600
Actually, no I don't have a script for this. It's not that big an issue that I worry about some sort-of-occupied tapes. I don't usually worry about the "phantom data" issue (I like the term "phantom