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The reason for this is that the bpexpdate command and
the vmquery command look at 2 completely different
databases. The bpexpdate command looks at the mediadb
database or media database which is located on all
media servers. If a media server is not decommissioned
correctly by using the bpmedia -movedb command to move
the media out of the old media servers database to the
master or another media server the only way to expire
the tape is to use vmquery -deassignbyid. This is
becuase the vmquery command is looking at the voldb or
volume database. There is only one of these and it is
on the master. This is really just a workaround. By
doing this action you are actually making your
databases out of sync. However in order to use the
tape again this is the only way because as long as the
media server that was removed cannot be contacted the
images cannot expire unless done manually at the
command line. That is why you must use the vmquery
command in this situation. 

Thanks,

Jeff Redington


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The reason for this is that the bpexpdate command and
the vmquery command look at 2 completely different
databases. The bpexpdate command looks at the mediadb
database or media database which is located on all
media servers. If a media server is not decommissioned
correctly by using the bpmedia -movedb command to move
the media out of the old media servers database to the
master or another media server the only way to expire
the tape is to use vmquery -deassignbyid. This is
becuase the vmquery command is looking at the voldb or
volume database. There is only one of these and it is
on the master. This is really just a workaround. By
doing this action you are actually making your
databases out of sync. However in order to use the
tape again this is the only way because as long as the
media server that was removed cannot be contacted the
images cannot expire unless done manually at the
command line. That is why you must use the vmquery
command in this situation. 

Thanks,

Jeff Redington
--- Eric Ljungblad <Eric.Ljungblad AT CopleyPress DOT com>
wrote:

> Just curious,  
> 
> If the volume database host is on the master server
> why would you need to
> Use the vmquery ?  I'm not suggesting that's not the
> case but we only 
> Have 1 media/master server and in the past we had 2
> media servers,  what 
> I found out was when I could not deassign some tapes
> that were written to 
> On the old media server was that the Volume database
> for that old media
> server was set Incorrectly to use that Host name as
> the volume database for
> that media server,  then we had 2 volume databases, 
> I had to use
> deassignbyid then but only because it was setup
> wrong.
> 
> I found out that all media servers should be using
> the Master server as the
> Volume database in the robot properties?  Or is that
> wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric Ljungblad                               
> Computer Operator
> Copley Information Services
> 7701 Herschel Ave
> La Jolla, California 90037 
> Eric.Ljungblad AT copleypress DOT com 
> (858) 729-8010 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J R [mailto:tekkdude AT yahoo DOT com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:15 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpexpdate query
> 
> You will have to use the vmquery -deassignbyid
> command
> instead of bpexpdate. Bpexpdate requires that
> Netbackup be able to communicate with the media
> server
> that performed the backup using the tape. Once a
> media
> server is decommissioned incorrectly the only way to
> liberate those tapes that were orphaned is to use
> the
> vmquery -deassignbyid command. 
> 
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