First Mount date changed in netbackup
In Veritas NetBackup, for a single media first mount date has been changed, while other media date is still same. For Example , I take two media. Media A has first mount date 07/07/2015 and media B h...
- When you delete a mediaid in NBU, ALL records for that tape is removed. It is as if the tape never existed.
When you re-add it, it is added as a new tape. All records are added from that day onwards.
So, not a good idea to delete tapes if you still want to use them.
You will never have a reliable record of the age of a tape or the number of mounts when it is later on re-added as new. Marianne and Anshu beat me to it - what I was after was the created time.
The media was at some point deleted (why ?) and re-added. When deleted, it is exactly that, deleted, so NBU has no records of it anymore.
Simply, do not delete tapes, and you will not have this issue.
Kindest regards,
Martin
