Vmquery –deassignbyid will expire the tapes but you need
to know the media id’s
Use vmquery –a –l to determine which media is
assigned; you can then use bpimmedia to determine whether any images exist on
the media. Should be easy enough to script…
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Cleverley
Sent: 18 July 2008 23:12
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media and image expiration
Greetings,
It looks like a problem with the tir_info files came up when the database
filled up. To free up space I ran the report to show me images on media
and then expired a bunch of the older incremental images. This freed up
some space, but not much. It looks like I'm going to have to wipe out the
tir_info files and run some new full backups.
The media that were associated with these images have not expired and gone into
the scratch pool. The reports show they have no images on them but they
still show they don't expire until the regular expiration date. I know
that I can bpexpdate them, but the problem is I didn't pay attention to the
labels on the big batch that was run a few days ago. Is there a way to
tell the database to expire tapes if they don't have any images on them
if I don't know the barcode label.
This is NB5.1 mp4 running on hpux 11.11.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Cleverley
Unix Systems Administrator
4380 Ziegler Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611
jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com
