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[Veritas-bu] Tape Question

2003-11-03 14:53:13
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Question
From: tlewick AT hrblock DOT com (Lewick, Taylor)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:53:13 -0600
Thank you, question to everyone.  What can cause assigned media that no
longer contains valid backups?  Why wouldn't NetBackup have taken care of
this itslef?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marx, Keath [mailto:Keath.Marx AT Anthem DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:41 PM
> To:   Lewick, Taylor; 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject:      RE: [Veritas-bu] Tape Question
> 
> Try running bpexpdate -deassignempty.  This should cause it to release any
> tape on which all of the images are gone.  You may need the -force key or
> if you have multiple media servers -m
> 
> The full option list is below.
> 
> bpexpdate: -deassignempty [-m <media id>] [-host <name>] [-force]
>              [-M <master_server,...,master_server>]
> 
>               -----Original Message-----
>                Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Question
> 
>               If I have a tape that according to the
> available_media_report has been
>               marked as FULL, but the images on media report returns no
> information, a
>               vmquery -m shows no expiration date, and a media contents
> report shows only
>               one image that has not yet expired, what do I make of this?
> 
>               I would say keep it in the library until the expiration date
> shown on the
>               media contents report passes, but according to the images on
> media report
>               there isn't an image that NetBackup knows about anyway, and
> if I cd to the
>               /db/images/client-name/epoch_directory there is no image
> matching what is
>               displayed on the media contents report.
> 
>               Should I just manually expire the tape and put it back in
> the scratch volume
>               pool?  Or should I keep it until the expiration date?  Any
> idea what could
>               cause this?
> 
>               Thanks,
>               Taylor
> 
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