Did it get rid of the images as well?  My guess is NO!

Here's the problem you ran into.  When the mediaDB was overwritten during 
the upgrade, you lost one of the three critical DBs.

Without too much detail, here are the DBs:

Image DB: Contiains information about what was backed up on each client 
and where to get it for a restore.  Stored on Master server in 
netbackup/db/images.

MediaDB: Contains information about tapes once they are written (# images, 
expiration dates, etc).  This is kept on each media server in 
netbackup/db/media/mediaDB.

VolDB: Contains information on physical charecteristics of tapes (# 
mounts, assignement, location in/out of a library, etc).

In your case, you probably ended up in a situation where there were images 
on media (imageDB) and the tapes were assigned (volDB).

To remedy this situation can be quite time consuming and should not be 
taken lightly.

You'll first want to check out if there are images on the tapes to do 
that, run bpimmedia.

Next, determine if they are valid.  If they are, you'll want to consider 
importing the tapes so as to re-create the mediaDB entries.  If they 
aren't valid, you can remove the remains.  To do that will require 
bpexpdate -justimage -m $MID -d 0 followed by the vmquery -deassignbyid to 
remove the assignment and make the tape available for re-use.

You might consider contacting PS for some assistance as they have some 
tools to help identify problems and clean them up.

-Tim


On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Arif Budiman wrote:

> Great james, it works ! 
> Thank you so much..
>  
> 
> Regards,
> Arif Budiman
> PTExcelcomindo Pratama
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: james.park AT bt DOT com [mailto:james.park AT bt DOT com] 
> Sent: 06 Agustus 2004 15:26
> To: Arif Budiman; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Expiring media
> 
> 
> use "vmquery" deassignbyid, then the tape will be expirable
>  
> Usage: vmquery [-h <volume_database_host>,...,-h <volume_database_host>]
>            [-b | -w | -l]
>            {
>            -a |
>            -m <media_id> |
>            -v <volume_group> |
>            -rn <robot_number> |
>            -rt <robot_type> |
>            -mt <media_type> |
>            -p <pool_number> |
>            -pn <pool_name> |
>            -res <robot_type> <robot_number> <robot_control_host>
>                 <robot_coord1> <robot_coord2> |
>            -assignbyid <media_id> <media_type> <pool_number> <status>
>                        <assigntime> |
>            -deassignbyid <media_id> <pool_number> <status>
>            }
> 
> -----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 Arif
> Budiman
> Sent: 06 August 2004 09:13
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Expiring media
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> Is thre any way to expire a media which its media catalog is missed?
> I tried to use bpexpmedia, but it requires a media server contains the
> media catalog. A guy reinstall the previous media server and delete the
> media catalog.
> 
> Regards,
> Arif Budiman
> PTExcelcomindo Pratama
> 
>