NBU 6.5.4 tape error 96
HI
Dear All,
i am having the issue of error 96. no tapes left in the scratch, most of them are seen as full. kinldy correct me ?
in my environment, i have NBU Master Server 6.5.4 attached FC SL500 LT03
i need to know, how can i delete the images from the tapes.
kinldy correct if i am wrong, ON NBU GUI, selected the Reports --> Images on the Tapes and then run the report.
i selected the list of the older backups via date, and then get the backup_id and then deleted it via cmd line.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpexpdate -backupid DataBase_1266960234 -d 0
kinldy let me know is it the correct way, to delete the older images from the tapes.
thnx
There are a couple of concepts you need to think about:
1. Tape expiration doesn't mean what a lot of people think it does. You want to expire the images from the tape, not the tape itself. When you tell bpexpdate to expire a media, you are really telling it to expire all the images on that media.
2. Expiring a single image on a tape does you no good since you can only write to the end of a tape. If a tape is full, you can't write to it until all of the images on the tape have expired. Even if you expire the last image on a tape, I don't think NetBackup is smart enough to use the expired space.
