[Veritas-bu] Trying to identify expired tapes

Tom,

The first thing I was going to say is the NOexpire file shouldn't be in
netbackup/bin/
But I'm wrong - that's where it should be!

What version and patch level of NBU are you running in the lab? If it's
before 5.1 MP4, you may have suffered from this ...

Etrack Incident = ET380235

Description:
   If the NOexpire touch file was set, then the NetBackup database image
   cleanup was disabled.  However, media would still expire.  The media no
   longer expires if the NOexpire touch file is set.
   Bpexpdate -deassignempty, which deassigns media if there are no
   corresponding images in the image database, is disabled.

Fixed in 5.1 MP4.

A workaround might be to rename the bpexpdate binary to another name on your
lab machine, then recover the catalogs again.

- Dean



On 9/1/06, Tschida, Tom (STP) <tom.tschida at guidant.com> wrote:
>
> Gurus,
>
> I have a request from our legal department to identify all tapes written
> within a one year period.  Unfortunately, that period is just outside of
> our retention.
>
> What I did:  From a Full backup of the Master server just after the
> requested period, I restored the images directory,
> netbackup/db/media/mediaDB, volmgr/database/volDB and poolDB and class
> directory to a server in our lab.
>
> I created the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/NOexpire file, moved all restored
> files in place, then stopped and restarted NetBackup on the test server.
>
>
> I was able to run bpimagelist and identify all the tapes written to
> during the time period.  The problem is, when I run bpmedialist on the
> individual tapes, it says they are not in the NB media database, even
> though they can be seen in the GUI under media.  They also show up with
> vmquery.
>
> The question is, do I still need to restore something, or am I just
> totally missing something with NB functionality?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Tom Tschida
> Guidant Corporation
>
>
>
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