Please send output of the following for one of the tapes:
vmquery -m <media_id>
Do not assign the media after deassign - that is the function of
NetBackup next time the tape is used for backup.
Please remember that the Media database and Volume database are two
DIFFERENT databases:
Media database (/usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/mediaDB) contains records
of tapes used for backups. IF you have multiple media servers, each
media server will have one (until version 5.1).
Volume database (/usr/openv/volmgr/database/volDB) contains hardware
information of all your tapes (in or out the robot).
Compare output of the following to see the difference in information
kept in the 2 databases:
mediaDB:
bpmedialist
volDB:
vmquery -a -bx
Also read this TechNote - it describes the relationship between these
databases:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/247898.htm
Regards
M.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
naymyotun
Sent: 24 October 2008 04:27
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Fail to update in bpmedialist after assign by
vmquery-assig
Dear Sirs,
I need ur kind assistance..I have a few volume pools in my netbackup
server. Each volume pools has a few medias ( tapes ) assigned to it.
Unfortunately,all the media ( tapes ) assigned to one of the volume
pools are expired and cannot be used back for backup. So I deassign the
tapes using " vmquery -deassignbyid xxxx " and reassign back to the
original pool using " vmquery -assignbyid xxxx".
But when I check the current backup tape list using this
command "bpmedialist -U" , I cannot see in the backup inventory list
but all those tapes are still physically inside the tape library and
still in the volume pool. So I did try the command " bpexpdate -ev "
media id" -d "mm/dd/yyyy" , I saw the following error message.
[b]"requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM
volume database.[/b]In fact , my intention is to be able to backup the
servers which are using the media tapes in this particular pool.
Currently the tapes in this particular pool are expired. The error
message when I use " bpmedialist -U " is as follow.
Server Host = PLUTO
id rl images allocated last updated
density kbytes restores
vimages expiration last read
<------- STATUS ------->
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
TAPE11 3 22 08/17/2008 01:35 09/09/2008 15:16 hcart
297765696 0
22 10/10/2008 15:16 N/A
EXPIRED
volume pool name = PLUTO_LTO
Inside this volume pool, I have TAPE1, TAPE2,....... up
to ., TAPE11 .But when I chk using "bpmedialist -U", I can see the above
message and cannot see the TAPE1, ......, TAPE10. But I can see these
tapes ( TAPE1,...., TAPE10) in the volume pool, PLUTO_LTO, using the GUI
.
Kindly tell me step by step how to reuse all these tapes
, TAPE1, .........., TAPE11 so that servers are able to backup using
this volume pool
KIndly please help me to advise what to do next. Currently I am running
"netbackup 3.4 " edition on solaris 7 version. I feel depress since the
problem was for quite a few days and all servers inside this volume
pools are not able to backup / restore anymore
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