Thanks Dave, in fact I am halfway testing this now :-)
So will check back if there is an issue.
Thank you again for the clarification. Its nice to know I can clean up the
VolDB now of old tapes that were damaged due to air con issues !
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Clooney, David [mailto:david.clooney at bankofamerica.com]
Sent: 25 August 2006 11:04
To: WEAVER, Simon; Keith W
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Hindle, Greg
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Permanently removing a tape from netbackup
Simon
5.1 mp*
Bpexpdate -d 0 -m $media
will expire all images on the tape and remove the tape from the mediaDB
however this same tape will still reside in the volDB as unassigned and
available. You would then need to run
Vmdelete -m $tape
To then delete the tape completely.
Try a test , find media that you can expire and delete.
First do a
Vmquery -m $media
and you will notice in the ouput
assigned: will have a date and time meaning that the tape is allocated
Next do your bpexpdate -d 0 -m $media
Once complete run a vmquery -m $media and you will notice the
Assinged: entry will now be blank
The pure fact that you are able to query this media even though you don't
have images on it confirms that it still resides in the volDB
And therefore you need to vmdelete -m $media to totally clear it out the
system , if it ever comes back into the system it will be treated as a new
tape.
Regards
Dave
PS , only if you have a script in place re-assinging available media back to
the scratch pool will they go there when all the images expire, by default
all new tapes go to scratch and then assigned to another pool , when they
become available the will reside in the same pool.
-----Original Message-----
From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net]
Sent: 25 August 2006 10:42
To: Clooney, David; Keith W
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Hindle, Greg
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Permanently removing a tape from netbackup
Ok so lets assume a tape is due to expire 25th Aug 2006 at 8:00pm
If I BPEXPDATE -d0 this tape, it will remove to scratch.
I can then eject the tape
I can go into scratch (once eject is ok) and DELETE the tape.
If I was to import the SAME tape, Netbackup would treat this as a clean, new
tape.
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Clooney, David [mailto:david.clooney at bankofamerica.com]
Sent: 25 August 2006 10:39
To: WEAVER, Simon; Keith W
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Hindle, Greg
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Permanently removing a tape from netbackup
Apparently in NBU 6 it will, however anything below it wont .
Regards
Dave
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon
Sent: 25 August 2006 07:17
To: 'Keith W'
Cc: 'veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu'; 'Hindle, Greg'
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Permanently removing a tape from netbackup
That's where I am now confused! I thought BPEXPDATE done ALL of this for
you?
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith W [mailto:keith at cydonia.net]
Sent: 24 August 2006 17:17
To: WEAVER, Simon
Cc: 'Hindle, Greg'; 'veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Permanently removing a tape from netbackup
Here is what I do, always seems to work for me.
Expire the image, where A00003 is the volume name.
/bpexpdate -ev A00003 -d 0
I then go into the GUI and delete the images, I do this because I am not
sure how to do that part command line.
+-----------------------+
+ Keith +
+-----------------------+
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, WEAVER, Simon wrote:
>
> Greg
> Well I would bpexpdate the entire tape
> eject the tape
> remove from Robot
>
> Unless there is another method anyone can share?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Simon Weaver
> 3rd Line Technical Support
> Windows Domain Administrator
>
> EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
> Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
>
> Email: <mailto:Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net>
> Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hindle, Greg [mailto:Greg.Hindle at constellation.com]
> Sent: 22 August 2006 14:02
> To: NB List Mail
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Permanently removing a tape from netbackup
>
>
>
> Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9
>
> What is the recommended way, "best practice" to permanently remove
> tapes from netbackup? We have some tapes they will be removed from one
> master and shipped to another location to a different master. But I
> want to make sure that no traces of the tapes remain in the old
> master. What is the best way to do this without causing any issues?
>
>
> Greg
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