Roland, thanks, I confirmed that I am seeing the same situation with
some of our full tapes. When a backup job uses multiple tapes and then
fails, the first few tapes are not always cleaned up. (i.e., they are
left showing as full, but there are no valid images on them, via
bpimmedia) At this time I don't know if this happens every time there
is a failed job that used multiple tapes or just occasionally. Now
because the tape is full, is it still active? I.e., will NetBackup
reuse this tape if I don't de-assign it. If not then this seems like a
bug.
Thanks,
Taylor
-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Gerlach [mailto:rgerlach AT acmi.net DOT au]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:55 PM
To: Lewick, Taylor
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Full Tape question
I've seen a situation where one of our backup jobs required multiple
tapes but the job failed while writting to the last tape. Tapes other
than the last one used showed up as having 1 image and 0 virtual images
but I can't remember if the tape was marked as full - I suspect it was.
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Roland.
-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Lewick,
Taylor
Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 4:59 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Full Tape question
Hi all, a question about full tapes.
I have a script I wrote called deassign_full_media. The criteria is it
compares a listing of full media from that days media summary report,
looking for only tapes that report as FULL. Also, I only let it look
for tapes in our regular pool, not the scratch/NetBackup/other pools.
Once I find a full tape still in the library (I run this after the
ejects because it should have been sent offsite if it has a valid image,
and we aren't storing dupes in the library) I then have it do a
bpimmedia -l -mediaid ###### and if I get a "no entity was found"
message, then I know I have a tape that has been marked full but doesn't
have a valid image on it. So it should be logical to go ahead and
deassign the tape.
So my question is does anyone have an idea what could cause a tape to
report as full even if it doesn't have a valid image on it?
Thanks,
Taylor
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