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Hi Katherine
Thanks very much
for your reply. I know one of the tapes I am having a problem with
did get stuck in a drive so had to be rescued manually - not sure
about the others though. The drive
has been used since so NetBackup doesn't think the tape is still in the drive.
There must be a register somewhere of tapes that are theoretically
in use. Either that or it is some sort of corruption but we are intending
to blow away the installation and start from scratch as we are about to build
the production environment. I just hope this
doesn't happen in the future.
Regards
Richard
From: Greenberg, Katherine A
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 April 2006 1:42
amTo: Mansell, Richard;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media in
use
That sounds to me like it thinks the tape is mounted
somewhere.
Can you run robtest and query the drives to see what is
mounted?
~Kate
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RichardSent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:37 PMTo:
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: [Veritas-bu] Media in
use
Hi
We are in the process of implementing a brand new
installation of NetBackup 6.0 MP2 (Windows based) and I seem to be having
problems with some of the media.
I have 5 tapes that report that they are in use even
though they are sitting quietly in slots the library. If I try and use
bpexpdate or vmchange/vmdelete I get a tape in
use message:-
C:\temp>bpexpdate -m 9014L3 -d 0
-forcerequested media id is in use, cannot process
request
and
C:\temp>vmdelete -m 9014L3the media is
allocated for use (199)
What does 'in use' actually mean? Does NB think that
there are still images on the tapes (there aren't) or does it think it is
physically in a drive somewhere?
Also if I try and do a 'bpmedialist -mcontents -m
9014L3 -L' the session detail shows:-
6/04/2006 11:25:28 a.m. - started process
bptm (2144)6/04/2006 11:25:27 a.m. - begin Media Contents6/04/2006
11:25:28 a.m. - requesting resource 9014L36/04/2006 11:25:28 a.m. -
awaiting resource 9014L3 Reason: Media is in use., Media Server: N/A, Robot
Number: 0, Robot Type: NONE, Media ID: 9014L3, Drive Name: N/A, Volume Pool:
N/A, Storage Unit: N/A, Drive Scan Host:
N/A
NB appears to be automatically trying to expire the
tape too as these entries are in the log:-
5/04/2006 2:09:02
p.m. ccobkp04 Error 0 Media Device Media
Manager error 97, rule does not exist in rule database, host =
ccobkp045/04/2006 2:09:02
p.m. ccobkp04 Error 0 Media Device Media
Manager could not deassign media id 9014L3, retaining it in NetBackup
database5/04/2006 2:09:02
p.m. ccobkp04 bpexpdate Error 0 General Could
not deassign media-id 9014L3, host ccobkp04.ccity.biz: could not deassign
media due to Media Manager error (177)
Is there any way of changing the
status of the tapes?
Regards
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