Media Freeze
Hello Experts,
Two media are frozen and i could see logs as it contains tar-format data and cannot be used for backups in netbackup.
I could see its size as 0 kilobites.
Pls let me know what can be done to reuse the tapes.
Thanks,
Someone has used the tape to write backups with OS tar command.
So, tape has not been used by NBU, but by OS Admin. That is why NBU says 0 Kb. No info in NBU about this backup.
When tape is loaded, NBU sees the OS tar header and freezes the tape.
This is normal behaviour when NBU sees non-NBU header on a tape.To see what is on the tape before you unfreeze and overwrite it in NBU, you can load the tape into a drive and the use OS command to list tape content.
e.g. if tape is loaded in /dev/rmt/0,
# tar tvf /dev/rmt/0To reuse it in NBU, go to Host Properties -> Media Server -> select media server name > Media -> Allow Media Overwrite
Select 'tar' format.Unfreeze the tape.
NBU can now overwrite data on this tape.