Hello Rita

Netbackup will not overwrite a tape that it knows had been used to hold data 
from an catalog backup. Before it uses the tape, it reads the internal label 
written on the front of the tape to determine if it is a tape that is ok to 
write on. 


You can use the bplabel command to overwrite the internal label on the tape so 
that netbackup will not be able to tell that the tape had netbackup catalog 
data saved on it.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rita Reznikov [mailto:ritar AT techunix.technion.ac DOT il]
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 7:20 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Cc: Maman Shuki
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Assign a new media for Catalog Backup



Hello,

   we encountered a problem of assigning a new media (from scratch-pool)
   for catalog backup.
   We are currently using two tapes for this purpose. We tried to
   assign the new pair of tapes. The tapes we took were once in use
   by netbackup for regular client backups. Now they are expired
   and we assigned them to NetBackup pool.

   But, after trying to backup the catalog on the newly assigned tape
   the backup fails each time with the following errors in the bptm log
   file:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
11:31:15 [11574] <2> io_read_media_header: block read is not a NetBackup
media header, len = 1024, media id CC0521, drive index 2, data is
NetBackup database backup

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  Do any of you guys have an idea what should be done?


----
    Thanks,

              Rita Reznikov

    UNIX Group
    Technion Computer Center
    E-mail: ritar AT tx.technion.ac DOT il
    Tel. 04-8293871
    Fax: 04-8236212

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