Hello, I have read the previous posting here but it has not helped me. I have CHECK_EXPIRED_MEDIA_INTERVAL set to 12 and RETURN_UNASSIGNED_MEDIA_TO_SCRATCH_POOL set to 'yes'. I have even looked at http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/358346.htm but this hasn't helped me either. Does anyone have any suggestions. The expired tapes show up when I run 'bpexpdate -deassignempty' but, like I said, the aren't being automatically moved like they did before my upgrade from 6.0 MP4 to 7.0.1.

As you say they "appear" if you manually run bpexpdate -deassignempty but not automatically during 'cleanup' then maybe this T/N is relevant? The bpexpdate -deassignempty command is not being run automatically by the scheduler, and empty tapes, which hold no valid images, are not being made available for backups http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH135182

Netbackup 7.0.1 not returning expired media to scratch pool

RiaanBadenhorst
Level 6
15 years ago
Try and recreate your scratch pool.
gnussbaum
Level 3
15 years ago
Hi Riaan,

Thanks for the suggestion, but still no luck. My image cleanups run every 12 hours, but the expired tapes never move to scratch. I've even tried to rename my pempersist2 file to no avail. I also didn't have a 'last_time_expired_media' file, so I tried to 'trick' the system by created on using the last image cleanup ctime and that didn't help either.

Any other suggestions? I've checked the scratch pool settings and they are all pointing to the right pool. I opened a case but the engineer seems stumped as well.
Marianne
Level 6
15 years ago
Try to hard-code Scratch Pool in vm.conf:

(install_path\Volmgr\vm.conf)

SCRATCH_POOL = pool_name
Zahid_Haseeb
Moderator
15 years ago
May be something you were missing.

1.) Try to inventory your robot.

2.) As you have said "" I have CHECK_EXPIRED_MEDIA_INTERVAL set to 12 and RETURN_UNASSIGNED_MEDIA_TO_SCRATCH_POOL set to 'yes'. ""

Check any spell mistake here.

3.) Are you able to move the Tapes to Scratch manually ?
SvenKessler
Level 4
15 years ago
Hello,

we have the same problem. Can you please try to right click the expired tape and click "unfreeze"? After we do this the tapes are moving immediately to scratch. Doesn't matter, if the tape was really freezed or not.

Best regards

Sven
Andy_Welburn
Level 6
15 years ago
As you say they "appear" if you manually run bpexpdate -deassignempty but not automatically during 'cleanup' then maybe this T/N is relevant?

The bpexpdate -deassignempty command is not being run automatically by the scheduler, and empty tapes, which hold no valid images, are not being made available for backups
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH135182
Zahid_Haseeb
Moderator
15 years ago
Are you trying to manually delete some tape images and expected the tape move automatically to the scratch pool ?
gnussbaum
Level 3
15 years ago
Hi Zahid,

I was moving them manually because they weren't automatically being moved by the bpexpdate command.
gnussbaum
Level 3
15 years ago
Hi Andy,

You may be on to something here! I had that file on my server. I'll wait now to see if tapes get moved to scratch and update the thread.

Fingers crossed.

George
Andy_Welburn
Level 6
15 years ago
Did you notice "... "Skipping bpexpdate -deassignempty until next successful db backup" in the nbpem log file (oid=116) ..."