Eject & insert new media
Hey folks, This should be straight-forward, but would seem to be lost on me. I am quite new, and yes, I have been looking through both A) the manuals, and B) the forums. Ok, that being said, I have the following:
Windows 2008
Netbackup 6.5.4 (No, the support license was never renewed, so I cannot go to version 7.0 not to mention the cost to renew (expired june this year) is more than purchasing a complete BE solution, Ugh)
Now the challenge for me, there was no off-siting of media. So I created a volume pool (several, actually), added tapes to those pools from the existing NetBackup pool, created schedules for backups to occur so I could off-site the tapes (I set retention to infinity).
Once a set was created that I wished to off-site, I then went to the manual, went to the section Injecting and ejecting volumes, and got stumped. Ejecting was not an issue. The robot moved the requested tapes to the CAP (MAP, which ever it was called), I opened the CAP, removed the tapes, INSERTED new black tapes (with brand new barcodes on the tapes), and that's where I was stopped.
The Volume pool still has the pulled tapes referenced in there. Ok, so I try to delete the tape references, No go. "Cannot delete assigned volume INC263(92)" (INC263 happens to be the name of the tape).
Ok, maybe I should Expire the tape references with the GUI. Select "Expiration date" of yesterday (it defaults to 24 hours before). Seems to work just fine. Nex,t maybe I should move the tape references to a different media pool, like "None" or "Netbackup". Failed: "Change pool of INC263 failed (91)".
So, I am currently stuck. My intention is of course, eject the tapes (completed), move the brand new tapes into the previous slots. The only other thing I see so far is to DeAssign the volume, but that pretty much says "Danger, Wil Robinson!".
I did reference this link: http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/fairly-new-trying-learn-quickly-about-loading-cap, but that primarily talks about ejecting (which I have done), and references the manuals (which I have been combing through).
Thanks folks,
James
1) when a tape is written to with a valid job - you will see in the the GUI that it has an assigned date and an expiration date. So you were right to then eject these tapes to send off-site. Have them come back AFTER they expire - you should not put them back into the lib until they are expired ( if un-expired the next backup will append to the tape - then those older images/backups expire - you would then have wasted tape at the beginning of the tape - so just make sure they are past the expiration date of the images before putting them back in).
2) When you eject the tapes and take them out of the map - before the eject you will see in the GUI they have a slot number and a robot number. Once they are ejected those will be a - or blank. This means the tape is no longer in the library. But the tape MUST still be reference in NB because it knows you have valid backups on the tape. Think of the Media GUI as showing you all your tapes - the different columns show you where they are and when they were used and when the images on them will expire. The ones with a slot number tells you how many are in the robot - this can be important so if you sort by tapes that are in the robot you can verify that you have enough tapes for tonight's backups.
3) putting in new tapes - you might want to create a bar-code rule as to where the tapes go when you inject them - you can read the details on that in the manual and ask if you have questions on it. When you have the tapes in the MAP ( and based on what robot you have you might have to tell the robot what lib..) then go back to the GUI / Media and do the inject - based on which console you use you might be able to preview this - make sure the tapes come in with the correct media id and bar-code. Once injected you should see these tapes on your media list.
FYI - on the sort - if you hit Time Assigned twice, then Robot Control host twice - all the tapes IN the robot will be at the top, and the ones that have been written to will be at the very top.
