From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Brian.Beaird AT cat DOT com
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007
11:10 PM
To:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu]
Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool
Thanks guys. We're using NBU 5.1 on
unix. You are right that this version doesn't move the tapes
automatically (yet another reason to be excited about our future move to 6.0
next year). I was able to finally figure out using vmquery with -deassignbyid,
which moved them to the scratch pool once I did it. Thanks for the
script, Gabriel. That could be a definite timesaver once I read through
it and get it working!
-----Original Message-----
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
[mailto:Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007
12:25 PM
To: Brian.Beaird AT cat DOT com;
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool
I use the attached for this.
It does exactly what you describe (walking through all media
in robotic control or taking a list of media on the command line).
The step you're missing is vmquery -deassignbyid. Otherwise,
you've got the right steps.
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts
[mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007
12:04 PM
To: Brian.Beaird AT cat DOT com
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu]
Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool
It depends on the version of NetBackup. Older versions won't move
the tapes to the scratch pool automatically whereas the newer versions
do. What version of NBU are you running? Windows or Unix?
To manually move the tapes, look for an assigned date of "00/00/0000"
.../Ed
From:
Brian.Beaird AT cat DOT com [mailto:Brian.Beaird AT cat DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007
12:17 PM
To:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming
tapes to the scratch volume pool
I've run into a problem where my scratch volume pool is
empty. However, I have tons of empty tapes (can easily list with Aptare)
that just happen to be assigned to other specific pools. I can manually
run bpimmedia on these empty tapes to verify that there are no images on
them. But if I try to change the volume group on them via the GUI to
scratch (or the Netbackup pool), I get the "cannot change volume pool for
assigned media (91)" error.
If there are no images on the tape, what's the
problem? I thought once images expired on tapes, they were supposed to
automatically be kicked back out to a scratch pool anyway. I've found a
few places where I can manually force a tape into a different volume, but it is
pretty strongly suggested that you *not* do it that way.
