[Veritas-bu] Problem with allocating media on Netbackup 4.5

[david . egger]

Hello,

since yesterday, I have a major problem with backing up on Netbackup 4.5
This morning, all the backups failed with error code 96, although there was
scratch tapes available for backups.
I can notice that :

- scratch tapes have been assigned to the requested pool automatically when
the backup started
- backup failed immediately with error code 96
- no entity found on the assigned tape
- if I try to change pool manually from scratch pool to Full_I pool
(needed for a host backup regarding the schedule policy), the same problem
occurs :
tape assigned in the right pool, but backup fails.

As we are running out of spare tapes, we have decided to reuse tapes that
haven't reached their retention level yet, but will soon.
To do so, I ran the following :

bpimmedia -L -mediaid media_id
- to check images on tape : no entity was found

vmquery -deassignbyid media_id source_pool 0

When I run a bpmedialist -summary | grep media_id, I get an expiration
date that will occure in 1 week
When I run a bpexpdate -m media_id -d 0, I get the following : requested
media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume database

Do you think I have a Media manager or media database corruption ?

Thank you


David EGGER
Thales Alenia Space - Toulouse
DSI / Administration des Ressources
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem with allocating media on Netbackup 4.5

[david . egger]

Thank You Kenneth,

I've tried with 2 tapes, and it works !___
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[Veritas-bu] Duplicating tapes with Veritas NBU 4.5

[david . egger]

Hello all,

I am working with Veritas Netbackup 4.5 Data Center and I'm faced with a
problem.
We have a pack of written tapes (multiplexing mode use when backing up)
that contain only a few kb of data.
As we are running out of tapes, I'd like to know how it is possible to
duplicate the content of one MEDIA to another specific MEDIA ID,
without erasing what has already been backed up ?

For instance :

images on :
MEDIA001 : server A image volume 7kb
MEDIA001 : server B image volume 8kb
MEDIA002 : server C image volume 5kb

I aim to get all images from MEDIA001 onto MEDIA002, that would enable me
ton get theses images on MEDIA002 :

MEDIA002 : server A image volume 7kb
MEDIA002 : server B image volume 8kb
MEDIA002 : server C image volume 5kb
Total data volume on MEDIA002 : 20kb

then being able to scratch MEDIA001 tape

First I was thinking of bpduplicating command, but it won't give me the
result needed.

Thank you

David

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