[Veritas-bu] Deassigning tapes written by a defunct media server

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Hello, I recently decommissioned a media server in our NetBackup
environment. I now tapes coming back onsite from our offsite storage
vendor that have fragments written to them by this media server that the
master server will not deassign, so I have a bunch of tapes that have
assigned times showing up in one of my volume pools and not being moved
into the scratch volume pool when their images expire. Does anyone know
how I can tell my master server to ignore the fact that it can't talk to
this media server any more and go ahead and deassign these tapes? I've
tried
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bpexpdate -deassign empty -m <media-id> and it fails out with the error:
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could not update media list, host is unreachable
host is unreachable.
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Thanks,
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Jamie Jamison

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<DIV><SPAN class=3D190101820-12042005><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello, =
I recently=20
decommissioned a media server in our NetBackup environment. I now tapes =
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back onsite from our offsite storage vendor that have fragments written =
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by this media server that the master server will not deassign, so I have =
a bunch=20
of tapes that have assigned times showing up in one of my volume pools =
and not=20
being moved into the scratch volume pool when their images expire. Does =
anyone=20
know how I can tell my master server to ignore the fact that it can't =
talk to=20
this media server any more and go ahead and deassign these tapes? I've=20
tried</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2>bpexpdate -deassign=20
empty -m &lt;media-id&gt; and it fails out with the =
error:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=3D190101820-12042005><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>could =
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media list, host is unreachable</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=3D190101820-12042005><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>host =
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unreachable.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=3D190101820-12042005><FONT face=3DArial=20
size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=3D190101820-12042005><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Jamie=20
Jamison</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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