LK, (we have the same initials :)
To answer some of your questions ...
I have only 1 volume database which is located on my
NB master. I do have multiple hosts (slaves) sharing
my robots. On average I have about 4 hosts connected
and sharing drives in my robots. Since I have only 1
volume database your concerns in the first part of you
questions become null/void. To answer some of your other
questions, the answer is YES on rare occations I have
expired a media and still needed to deassign it using the vmquery
command. Early on I figured out that I needed to run bpexpdate
with the -host option and the fact that NB extablishes a media
database on each media server. I have never had a case
were vmquery did not deassign a tape. I always try to run
bpexpdate first and make sure that the media id is not in
any media database before resorting to vmquery. bpexpdate
should remove the media id from the media database and
deassign the tape from the volume database as well.
Hope this helps
KIPPEUR Laurent FTM/SG/DSI wrote:
>
> Some questions :
>
> In this case you use a robot shares between 2 servers,
> and 2 volume database hosts, no ?
> (I think, THIS is very dangerous !)
> Is this not the same case when you add a new tape ?
>
> Why bpexpdate doesn't work ?
> Have you never see some cases where bpexpdate doesn't
> work, and vmquery is required ?
>
> Here, I see a case where vmquery doesnt' work !
> Have you a solution ?
>
> Thanks
> LK
>
>
> Lee Kolinsky a écrit :
> >
> > Please note that what is suggested below can be very dangerous.
> > Once a media is deassigned it becomes an available candidate
> > for use by a future backup by a different media server. The
> > result is that you may end up with this media-id in 2 different
> > media servers media database and both of them will continue to
> > pick this tape for backups, overwritting each others backups.
> >
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