[Veritas-bu] Tape Question
2003-11-04 13:20:49
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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.
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".</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. 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.</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. 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.</font>
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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. 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. All are current, active media servers.<br>
<br>
So this is confusing me as to why a bpexpdate -deassignempty is returning a <br>
"Could not update media list, host is unreachable"<br>
Any ideas on this one?<br>
<br>
Thanks again, <br>
Taylor<br>
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