bpduplicate not creating new primary copy

Just duplicate the images.  When you expire the original, the duplicate with become primary. 

If you use the GUI, you should be able to check mark if you want the dup tape to become the primary

The issue is the bpduplicate will not duplicate anything to any new media. I know I just have to duplicate them, but why will it not actuall copy those images to another tape?

The job runs, fails with status 191 no images processed, presumably because it thinks copy 1 already exists. Looking into this particular media more and the images on it, those policies actually skip the disk target and write directly to tape, then we dupe that copy to this primary pool(all as primary copies) for on-site storage. The original tape gets vaulted. So for all these images I think there should only be 2 copies (1 on the vaulted media, one on this tape). So, why will it not allow be to create a 3rd copy and set it to primary?
 

NetBackup version?

I'm wondering whether the source media have a mix of copy numbers on them, and so your use of '-cn 2' cannot be satisfied.

So, how about, either, or both of:

1) Test by media '-id' but without specifying '-cn 2'.

2) Test duplicating just one image i.e. by -backupid AND the correct '-cn N', rather than by media, and see if you can get that to work.

I would look at the image content of the media :

  bpmedialist -mcontents -m 056754 -U 

to make sure you can actually read the tape contents. If it fails that means this media is corrupted.

Please also check this out: 

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH55980.

If I try without the -cn or the -primary flag, same result. Interestingly enough, I picked a random image and the correct -cn and sure enough it dupes that just fine and sets the new primary copy. How or what could be preventing the entire media's images from being duped? They are all copy 2, and all seem to have the same characteristics. I suppose the resolution now is just to dupe them all by backupid or is there some known way around this?

thanks sdo!

The media is readable, the problem is that the tape doesn't even get loaded so it is not a read issue because it can't fine any images that seem to qualify for duping.

Where these media phase 1 and phase 2 imported?

Maybe there is a partial/spanned image on one or more of the tapes which is preventing bpduplicate from being able to know/detect/work-out in advance that it is able to duplicate the entire tape?

To see if you have any partially imported (i.e. only phase 1 complete, and not yet phase 2 complete) images, use:

bpimagelist -idonly -d "01/01/1970 00:00:00" -option ONLY_PRE_IMPORT

Also this is 7.5.0.7 running on Windows. That article about the 226 error, the header file for that image seems to be binary, I cannot read it.The bpmedialist -mcontents chugged through the whole tape, no problems.

thanks