I don't have a clue as to what could be causing this anomaly, but try using
vmquery -deassignbyid and see if this helps.
Patrick Whelan 
Consulting 
[NBU (with extensions) and Storage Migrator] 
[VxFS and Volume Manager]
pwhelan AT veritas DOT com

Of course this is just my opinion, I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Friends help friends move, good friends help move bodies - Unknown.



                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Todd Stansell [mailto:todd AT gnac DOT com]
                Sent:   Monday, May 08, 2000 9:32 AM
                To:     Veritas BU
                Subject:        [Veritas-bu] re-using HSM tapes in NBU

                I have a co-worker who I've been helping try to figure out
how to re-use
                tapes that have neen used by HSM, which are now expired or
freed in some
                way, and initialize them for use in NBU.  The problem seems
to be that
                once NBU sees the tape, it recognizes that tape as being
associated with
                HSM in some way and either freezes the tape, or marks it as
part of the
                HSM pool (in some way it's unusable).

                The tape can be manually removed from the HSM pool, the tape
header can
                be erased, and when it is then added back to NBU, it still
gets assigned
                back to the HSM tape pool or is other wise unusable (I'm not
exactly
                sure of the behavior).  From what he says, it does it so
quickly that
                it doesn't even have time to load any of the tapes, so the
chance of it
                actually reading the tape is pretty minimal.

                So, we were wondering if anyone has dealt with this kind of
thing and
                if there is some special way of disassociating a tape with
HSM so that
                it can be used within NBU again for regular backups.  I seem
to remember
                hearing or seeing that there was something special that
needed to be
                done, but haven't found or remembered it...

                NBU 3.2, HSM 3.2, Solaris 2.5.1.

                Thanks.

                Todd
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