Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Moving assigned media to another volume pool?

2007-01-30 17:03:43
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Moving assigned media to another volume pool?
From: bob944 at attglobal.net (bob944)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:03:43 -0500
> I need help in finding information how to move assigned media
> to a different volume pool.  We recently had a backup job
> complete that has a 2 month retention on one of our tapes. 
> That particular media is assigned to 2 month volume pool.  I
> need to increase the retention of the media to year, and move
> that media to our 1 year volume pool.  I know to change the
> retention level of the tape I use the bpexpdate command, but
> I don't know is how to move that assigned tape to another
> volume pool.  In the earlier versions, I used vmquery 
> -deassignbyid, but in 6.0 that command is non-usable.  We
> are on 6.0 MP3, running off of Solaris 10. Any help is
> greatly appreciated.

Now that you know the easy way to do it (bpduplicate), it might be a
good time to reconsider your pool setup.  

You have created this problem for yourself by having 2-month and 1-year
pools to separate your short- and long-term data onto different tapes.
NetBackup does that automtically, regardless of pool.  There are a few
legal, contractual, operational reasons to use more than one pool;
retention level is not one of them.