Kim,

I imagine you need to delete the media ID from Media Manager and NBU before
reusing it.  When you reinsert the media into the Media Manager database,
you can specify number of prior uses, expiration date, etc, as appropriate
to the method you use for media aging.

Ken Zufall
Technical Analyst
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                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Pearson, Kim (STP) [mailto:kim.pearson AT guidant DOT 
com]
                Sent:   Tuesday, January 02, 2001 1:03 PM
                To:     'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
                Subject:        [Veritas-bu] Netbackup DB tapes

                We use bpvault to backup our NetBackup database. We are
attempting to re-use
                NB Database backup tapes (from bpvault) after they have
expired. 

                We are seeing the following errors logged from Netbackup:

                01/01/01 18:27:51 bigbuserver bigbuserver  FREEZING media id
000157, it
                contains
                                    NetBackup database backup data and
cannot be used for
                                    backups

                This is happening on over 30 different tapes. Is there
something special we
                need to do to re-introduce these tapes??  Have you seen this
before?? Here
                is a vmquery output:

                stpsn066# ./vmquery -m 000157 
        
============================================================================
                ====
                media ID:              000157
                media type:            DLT cartridge tape (11)
                barcode:               000157
                description:           ------
                volume pool:           ScratchPool (7)
                robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
                robot number:          1
                robot slot:            16
                robot host:            cphom
                volume group:          00_001_TLD
                created:               Fri Aug 13 13:59:39 1999
                assigned:              ---
                last mounted:          Mon Jan 01 18:30:49 2001
                first mount:           Sat Aug 14 05:54:28 1999
                expiration date:       ---
                number of mounts:      8
                max mounts allowed:    250
        
============================================================================
                ====

                Thanks,

                Kim Pearson

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