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[Veritas-bu] Tape Question

2003-11-04 13:20:49
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Question
From: scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com (scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:20:49 -0600
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bpmedialist queries the MediaDB on the media server, so they should all be 
active media servers if information was returned.  If you do a bpmedialist 
on a tape that was assigned and in use by a retired or unreachable media 
server, you won't get the retired or unreachable media server's name 
returned, you'll get "requested media id was not found in NB media 
database and/or MM volume database".

If you have improperly decommissioned media servers and want to find a 
list of the tapes from this media server they either 1.) will be assigned 
and still have valid images.  you can run Images on Media report for all 
clients and look at the media server column for the old media server or 
use bpimagelist to do the same (this queries the image catalog on the 
master) or 2.) will be assigned and all images have expired.  with all 
images expired, it will no longer be in the image catalog.  to find these, 
look at the difference between those volumes assigned to NetBackup using 
vmquery (as opposed to those assigned to catalog or Storage Migrator) and 
those returned in Images on Media report.

On commands that query the MediaDB, when you use -M for master and all 
media servers, as opposed to -h for a single media server, the server list 
to run the command against is often the media servers with configured 
Storage Units.  Add a Media Manager type Storage Unit with a bogus server 
name and run bpmedialist with -M and you'll see what I mean.  It'll return 
results for all valid media servers and return an error for the bogus 
server name you added.  Check to make sure there are no references to your 
old media server in the Storage Units or anywhere else like the Device 
Host list.


- Scott





"Lewick, Taylor" <tlewick AT hrblock DOT com>
Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
11/04/2003 08:44 AM

 
        To:     "'scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com'" <scott.kendall AT abbott 
DOT com>
        cc:     "'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'" <veritas-bu AT 
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        Subject:        RE: [Veritas-bu] Tape Question


Scott, thank you for all of the help yesterday.  One more question for 
you. 
I went through and for all of the full media ran a bpmedialist -mlist -L 
-m
mediaid 
and none of them reported a Server Host as one of the older decommissioned 

media servers.  All are current, active media servers.

So this is confusing me as to why a bpexpdate -deassignempty is returning 
a 
"Could not update media list, host is unreachable"
Any ideas on this one?

Thanks again, 
Taylor
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">bpmedialist queries the MediaDB on the media 
server, so they should all be active media servers if information was returned. 
&nbsp;If you do a bpmedialist on a tape that was assigned and in use by a 
retired or unreachable media server, you won't get the retired or unreachable 
media server's name returned, you'll get &quot;requested media id was not found 
in NB media database and/or MM volume database&quot;.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">If you have improperly decommissioned media 
servers and want to find a list of the tapes from this media server they either 
1.) will be assigned and still have valid images. &nbsp;you can run Images on 
Media report for all clients and look at the media server column for the old 
media server or use bpimagelist to do the same (this queries the image catalog 
on the master) or 2.) will be assigned and all images have expired. &nbsp;with 
all images expired, it will no longer be in the image catalog. &nbsp;to find 
these, look at the difference between those volumes assigned to NetBackup using 
vmquery (as opposed to those assigned to catalog or Storage Migrator) and those 
returned in Images on Media report.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">On commands that query the MediaDB, when you use 
-M for master and all media servers, as opposed to -h for a single media 
server, the server list to run the command against is often the media servers 
with configured Storage Units. &nbsp;Add a Media Manager type Storage Unit with 
a bogus server name and run bpmedialist with -M and you'll see what I mean. 
&nbsp;It'll return results for all valid media servers and return an error for 
the bogus server name you added. &nbsp;Check to make sure there are no 
references to your old media server in the Storage Units or anywhere else like 
the Device Host list.</font>
<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">- Scott</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Scott, thank you for all of the help 
yesterday. &nbsp;One more question for you. <br>
I went through and for all of the full media ran a bpmedialist -mlist -L -m<br>
mediaid <br>
and none of them reported a Server Host as one of the older decommissioned <br>
media servers. &nbsp;All are current, active media servers.<br>
<br>
So this is confusing me as to why a bpexpdate -deassignempty is returning a <br>
&quot;Could not update media list, host is unreachable&quot;<br>
Any ideas on this one?<br>
<br>
Thanks again, <br>
Taylor<br>
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