Hi

It seems nobody has noticed this:

> I have attempted bplabeling the tape again, and then assigning it with 
> vmquery -assignbyid.

The media is assigned because it was done with "vmquery -assignbyid". This does 
not add an entry in mediaDB, which is why bpmedialist does not list this tape.

This was my offline response to Robert:

There are 2 media database files in NetBackup:
1st one is volDB under Media Manager (volmgr/database) that tracks hardware. 
That is what you see when you run vmquery.
2nd one is mediaDB under NetBackup (netbackup/db/media). Each media server has 
one. Only when backups are written to a tape does it get added to the mediaDB 
of the Media Server writing to it. The mediaDB contains information all the 
info listed in bpmedialist. The tape is now ASSIGNED to the media server. 
Assigning it manually without backups on it might cause problems.


Regards

Marianne

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Nusser [mailto:rnusser AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: 25 January 2006 12:58
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media id's not appearing in NB media database


Hi all,

I am having problems with some of my media id's not appearing in the "NB media
database". I have attempted bplabeling the tape again, and then assigning it
with vmquery -assignbyid. Alas it seems I am back where I started and I can
see the tape using vmquery, but I cannot see the tape using bpmedialist, and
thus can also not freeze and unfreeze the tape. I also know the backups will
fail on those tapes that I cannot see with the bp commands.

I only have one standalone Veritas Netbackup server with the tape drives
attached to it. Consequently supplying the -h switch to bpmedialist with the
host name doesn't help either.

So I would love to know how I can get this media id added to the NB media
database?


# /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -m MPDY56
============================================================================
media ID:              MPDY56
media type:            DLT cartridge tape 2 (16)
barcode:               --------
description:           Added by NetBackup
volume pool:           MISPD (6)
robot type:            NONE - Not Robotic (0)
volume group:          ---
created:               Mon Oct 31 22:08:37 2005
assigned:              Mon Jan 23 14:26:10 2006
last mounted:          Mon Jan 23 14:33:58 2006
first mount:           Mon Oct 31 22:08:38 2005
expiration date:       ---
number of mounts:      3
max mounts allowed:    ---
status:                0x0
============================================================================

# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedialist -ev MPDY56
requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume
database


Thanks,
Robert




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