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[Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers

2007-03-28 11:12:32
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
From: brooksje at longwood.edu (Brooks, Jason)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:12:32 -0400
 After Justin gave me the suggestion of altering the command line, I
started getting somewhere.  But now I'm stuck again.  NBU thinks these
two tapes are in use.  The EMM knows about the tapes, and per that
information, they can actually be reused.  I tried bpexpdate on them,
failed with this:

requested media id is in use, cannot process request

So, I started digging with google.  Came across a problem from the
archives, posted by Richard Mansell, April 6, 2006.  He had tried
similar things, and finally a bpmedialist -mcontents -m 000024 -L -host
media1 (mine).  Ran it, got the following in Activity Monitor:

3/28/2007 10:59:32 AM - awaiting resource 000024 Reason: Media is in
use., Media Server: N/A, Robot Number: 0, Robot Type: NONE, Media ID:
000024, Drive Name: N/A, Volume Pool: N/A, Storage Unit: N/A, Drive Scan
Host: N/A

Robtest shows that there are no tapes in the drives.  Both tapes show
this behavior.  How can I make NBU think that there no longer in use?  

BTW - these are not catalog tape but from my diff pool. 

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Brooks, Jason
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:18 AM
> To: Justin Piszcz
> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> 
> Well, that gave me more to work with.  Leaving off the old 
> server gave me the following error:
> 
> "requested media id was not found in the EMM database"
> 
> So, a little more digging.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Justin 
> > Piszcz
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:05 AM
> > To: Brooks, Jason
> > Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> > 
> > Wrong syntax?
> > 
> > Try this:
> > 
> > bpmedia -m 000024 -movedb -newserver new-media-server -oldserver 
> > old-server
> > 
> > I do not believe the oldserver is needed, just including it 
> for full 
> > documentation purposes.
> > 
> > Justin.
> > 
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Brooks, Jason wrote:
> > 
> > > I've been in the process of migrating a media server for
> > the past week
> > > or so.  I've used the guide in Appendix A of the NBU 
> Media Manager 
> > > System Administrator's Guide for Windows without any significant 
> > > problem.  However, I do have two recalcitrant tapes that won't 
> > > reassign to the new media server.  Here's what's happening:
> > >
> > > 1) Look for tapes assigned to the old server:
> > > D:\Program
> > Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedialist.exe -mlist
> > > -l -h media1
> > > 000024 *NULL* 1 20 1141664428 1142876367 1205774540 0 
> 113749351 102
> > > 102 10 4 0 0
> > > 1024 0 1777569 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> > > 000072 *NULL* 1 20 1142060157 1142879077 1205736395 0
> > 45324144 46 46
> > > 10
> > > 4 0 0 10
> > > 24 0 708298 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> > >
> > > Good.  Two tapes to move.
> > > 2) Try the move:
> > > D:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedia 
> -movedb -ev
> > > 000024 -oldserver media1 -newserver media2 invalid error number
> > >
> > > Same happens for tape 000072.  All other tapes relocated without 
> > > incident.  And I've checked to make sure these tapes
> > weren't frozen -
> > > they're active.
> > >
> > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > ------------
> > > Jason Brooks
> > > Computer Systems Engineer
> > > IITS - Longwood University
> > > voice - (434) 395-2034
> > > fax - (434) 395-2035
> > > mailto:<brooksje at longwood.edu>
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