Thanks Steve. I actually did end up using VMDELETE, which appeared to work.
The only 1 thing I did notice, is when running the "Media Lists" report, it
still shows the tape entry in here. Not sure if it takes time to update, but
under media and device manager, the tape did in fact go!
And yes, to confirm, there was no images on there, as they had all expired.
Thanks
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium-eads DOT net
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:ssesar AT mitre DOT org]
Sent: 31 March 2006 13:32
To: WEAVER, Simon
Cc: 'Rob Haig'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] could not deassign media due to Media Manager
error
What has happened, is that the media is in the volume database (the
datyabase that vmquery reports on), but the tape isn't in any of the
media databases on any of your media servers. It's orphaned, in a sense.
What you might want to do, is run bpimmedia -mediaid 0807L1 to see if
there are any live images on it.
If not, then run the following:
vmquery -deassignbyid 0807L1 8 0 - this will deassign the media in the
volume database
then run vmdelete -m 0807L1 - this will delete the media from the volume
database
Since the media is not in any library, you do not need to update your
robotic inventory. if the media was in a library, you would.
If there *are* live images on the tape, you can either choose to import
the tape back into the media database that it belongs in, or simply let
the images expire and run an import if you need to do a restore. I
always choose the latter, since when I've noticed database discrepancies
such as this, it usually involves more than one piece of media!
HTH,
Steve
WEAVER, Simon wrote:
>Guys
>This is the results of VMQUERY:
>C:\>vmquery -m 0807L1
>=======================================================================
>=====
>===
>
>media ID: 0807L1
>media type: 1/2" cartridge tape (6)
>barcode: 000807L1
>media description: Added by Media Manager
>volume pool: server007_monthly (8)
>robot type: NONE - Not Robotic (0)
>volume group: ---
>vault name: ---
>vault sent date: ---
>vault return date: ---
>vault slot: ---
>vault session id: ---
>vault container id: -
>created: 20/01/2005 12:12:26
>assigned: 02/09/2005 17:05:08
>last mounted: 17/07/2005 10:14:04
>first mount: 09/04/2005 21:06:08
>expiration date: ---
>number of mounts: 5
>max mounts allowed: ---
>status: 0x0
>=======================================================================
>=====
>===
>
>
>When I try to deassign by id it tell me "Could not deassign media ID
>08071L: volume does not exist in database (35)" Any other ideas?
>
>Regards
>
>Simon Weaver
>3rd Line Technical Support
>Windows Domain Administrator
>
>EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
>Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
>
>Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium-eads DOT net
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob Haig [mailto:rhaig AT renewdata DOT com]
>Sent: 30 March 2006 18:25
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] could not deassign media due to Media Manager
>error
>
>
>You could always do a vmquery -deassignbyid
>But afteryou do this make sure you delete the tape and then let NBU
>recreate it with an inventory robot. If you don't delete the tape in
>NBU 5.x you can end up with 2 media servers writing to the same tape
>causing data loss.
>
>-----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
>Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com
>Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:06 AM
>To: simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT
>edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] could not deassign media due to Media Manager
>error
>
>Is this tape assigned to a media server that no longer exists?
>
>-----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 WEAVER,
>Simon
>Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:14 AM
>
>Morning
>Have an old LTO1 tape that has not been written to in over 12 months.
>When I run the media list it shows this tape 0807L1 expired 29th March
>06. Today is the 30th. The status of the tape shows expired MPX
>
>So when trying to bpexpdate -m 0807L1 -d 0 it tell me it could not
>deassign media due to media manager error.
>
>Any tips on how to remove this from the report? Netbackup believes it
>is assigned to a volume and I can see it.
>
>The tape is not stored in the library and there will be no need to
>re-use this tape in the future Thanks
>
>Regards
>
>Simon Weaver
>3rd Line Technical Support
>Windows Domain Administrator
>
>EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
>Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
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