Right:
> >I suppose you could just use -o option and bypass the
> >dd, but old habits are hard to break.
Regards,
David
Quoting "W. Curtis Preston" <curtis AT colltech DOT com>:
> You actually don't need to dd to them before you
bplabel them. You just
> need to specify the -o option for bplabel, which
forces an overwrite.
>
> At 12:24 PM 9/8/00 -0500, David A. Chapa wrote:
> >Actually I believe this still has the NBUDB header on
> >the tape, and NBU will not reuse those.
> >
> >Each time you do a NBU DB backup the previous tape
> >becomes "obsolete", so to speak, but the header
remains
> >
> >I always do
> >
> >dd on those tapes that I need to re-use
> >
> >then bplabel.
> >
> >ex.
> >
> >dd if=/etc/hosts of=/tapedev/name
> >tpunmount /tapedev/name
> >bplabel -ev MEDIAID -d DENSITY -p POOLNAME
> >
> >I suppose you could just use -o option and bypass the
> >dd, but old habits are hard to break.
> >
> >David
> >
> >Quoting Michael Wei <wei AT colltech DOT com>:
> >
> > >
> > > To reuse NBU DB tape you have to manually deassign
> >them.
> > >
> > > Use vmquery -deassignbyid option.
> > >
> > >
> > > > From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Fri
> >Sep 8 12:02:54 2000
> > > > I have a pool of tapes which are used for
NetBackup
> >Database backup. I
> > > > have too many of these tapes in the pool and
want
> >to move some to
> > > > another pool for regular backup duty. First, I
made
> >sure that there were
> > > > no recent backups to the media. Then, I did the
> >following:
> > > >
> > > > bpexpdate -d 0 -ev CEI381
> > > > vmdelete -m CEI381
> > > >
> > > > using the xvmadm GUI, I ejected the media to the
> >library's import/export
> > > > port, "deleted" the media id from the library
> >inventory, and injected
> > > > the media back into the library and moved it to
the
> >pool for regular
> > > > backups.
> > > >
> > > > vmquery -m CEI381 -- showed it's status was 0x0
> > > >
> > > > When NetBackup 3.2 found the media was available
> >for use it mounted it
> > > > and issued the following message:
> > > >
> > > > img00 mdsi01 FREEZING media id CEI381, it
contains
> >NetBackup database
> > > > backup data and cannot be used for backups
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions??
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