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[Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty problem

2007-02-22 10:25:25
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Bpexpdate -deassignempty problem
From: StumpB at michigan.gov (Bob Stump)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:25:25 -0500
How to manually remove a tape completely from NetBackup/Media Manager.
http://support.veritas.com/docs/208420
 
Details:
First, if there are images on the tape, they need to be expired.  This
can be done by: 
     bpexpdate -ev <mediaid> -d 0

This will not completely free up the tape if the tape is frozen or
suspended, so the command(s):
    bpmedia -unfreeze -ev <mediaid>
or
    bpmedia -unsuspend -ev <mediaid>
may be needed.

At this point there will be no image database entries for that tape and
the media database should show the tape as not assigned therefore
allowing the tape to be reused. However sometimes the image database and
the media manager database can be out of sync, and the tape may show as
still assigned, or if the tape has a NetBackup database backup on it,
there would be no image entry to begin with.  When a tape shows an
assigned date, but no images are related to that tape, it will show up
in the available_media report as dbbackup.  To tell if a tape actually
has a dbbackup on it, the command:
     vmquery -m mediaid
will show a status, where 0x0 means normal backups, 0x1 means NetBackup
database backup and 0x2 means Storage Migrator.
If it is 0x1, be certain this is not a database backup which will ever
be needed.
If it is 0x2, it is in use by Storage Migrator and understanding of the
use of the tape by Storage Migrator (not covered here) is required.

To free up the tape, when it has an assigned date but no images in the
database, the command:
    vmquery -deassignbyid <mediaid> <poolnumber> <status>
must be run, but the status will be displayed as 0x0, 0x1 or 0x2 and
needs to be just 0, 1 or 2 in the vmquery -deassignbyid.

At this point the tape is available to be used for backups.

If the tape was bad or destroyed and that is why it is being removed,
the command:
    vmdelete -m <mediaid>
will remove the last remnants of information about it from media
manager.

There are other options which may be specified for the above commands. 
Some are to specify server names, volume database host names, etc.  If
the NetBackup/Media Manager setup is complex, those options may be
needed.  The full paths to the commands mentioned are:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpexpdate
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedia
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery
usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmdelete
All but available_media have man pages.




>>> "Preston, Douglas L" <dpreston at landam.com> 2/22/2007 10:10 AM >>>


When running bpexpdate -deassignempty I get the following error
message.
Does anyone have a possible fix for this error?  I have over 300 tapes
that have 0 valid images that were assigned between 2005 and 2006 that
I
would like to get put back in my scratch pool.


G:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\Admincmd>bpexpdate
-deassignempty
-force -m svcacibu1
Could not build host list: client hostname could not be found client
hostname could not be found


Doug Preston
Systems Engineer
Land America Tax and Flood Services
Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104
Email  dlpreston at landam.com


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