I suppose that if there are no images in the catalog for these tapes, you
could run a Phase 1 Import which will tell you the backupid, date and size
of each image on the tapes.

You might need to "vmchange -deassignbyid" the tapes first.

On 9/12/06, Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com> wrote:
>
> I've got some volumes that are assigned in the volume database, but have
> no images in the media database (bpmedialist says id not found).  I'd
> like to gather some information about what's on the tape (Is it really
> netbackup?  When/what is on the images...)  I assume they're old
> (expired) given the 'last mount' date and the pool, but I don't know why
> it's still assigned in the volume database.
>
> I tried 'bpmedialist -mcontents -m <id>' to see if it would mount and
> display what's actually there, but it just spits out an error message
> very quickly (before any tape movement).
>
> Could not obtain report from host nbuserv, requested media id was not
> found in NB media database and/or MM volume database
>
> Well, yes.  I know it's not there.  I just want a summary of the
> contents.
>
> Obviously I could mount it by hand in a tape and start poking around
> with 'tar' and such, but I was hoping I could run a netbackup command to
> get me the same information.  Is there such a command?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
> Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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