I'm fairly sure that a tape has to be pulled from the scratch pool before it will be returned to the scratch pool. So if you added tapes and added them to a pool other than scratch, they won't be moved to Scratch once the are expired. They will just stay in the original pool. I guess the best thing to do would be to watch your pools, see when tapes are expired, and manually move them back to scratch the first time. Once they are moved, let netbackup pull them from scratch into your other pools. My guess is Netbackup is expiring your tapes, but it's not obvious to you because you don't see them going back to scratch.
Thanks, Kris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:10 AM To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media Experation I run two scripts to expire media. First I run the bpexpdate -m ###### -d o which does work sometimes. I found through trial and error that this will not only reassign the media to scratch, but also wipes the catalog of any information about that media. If that doesn't work, I then have to vmquery - deassignbyid - which according to Veritas is NOT RECOMMENDED but I really have no other way to get these tapes back into rotation. I'll check out the retention periods on all my policies. I'm sure this is the case. -Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:05 AM To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media Experation By the way, you could use bpexpdate -m <mediaID> -d 0 if you want to force netbackup to move the tapes into SCRATCH, assuming that has been configured and the tapes have no images on there that are needed! HTH Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 December 2005 14:56 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Experation N00b question here I know, but what sets the media expiration date? I'm taking over a Netbackup 5.1 environment and we seem to have a load of issues with media never expiring / having to vmquery -deassignbyid to get stuff to go back into the scratch pool. I'd say the GUI is useless for 80% of my media returns from offsite. -Jonathan _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
