I've found something interesting on a few of my media from this week.
It looks like if a NDMP backup fails, after writing a tape or two the
media kind of just sit there with "invalid" images.

I've got two media this week from a 3 way NDMP backup that failed
Saturday.  The Media Lists report says they have 2 images on them, but 0
valid images.  I'm not sure that this data can be restored, or that my
NDMP box can restart a failed backup?  I've restarted the failed backup
and its already completed it's 2nd attempt, and I've found I can
bpexpdate these media, but what a pain in the future.  I wonder if this
is by design?

I smell a support call...

-Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Preston, Douglas L [mailto:dpreston AT LANDAM DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:34 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Forever Assigned Media

I just found the solution to my 96 media that would not expire.
I have followed this technote to expire 2 of them so far.


http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/280181.htm 


Doug Preston
Systems Engineer
Land America Tax and Flood Services
Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104
Email  dlpreston AT landam DOT com


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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:39 AM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Forever Assigned Media

NBU 6.0 MP4 running on Windows 2003

I've got a growing list of media in the robot that stay perma-assigned.
If I run a vmquery on the media id it shows no expiration date, and
bpimmedia shows no images on the media.  Yet, the media never revert to
scratch or ever get written to again.  Some of them bpexpdate (even with
no images?) and some come back as media id not found in EMM database.  I
thought all this media nonsense was over and done with but I guess not.
Anyone else having similar issues / is there a fix I'm not aware of?

-Jonathan

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