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cajunspirit
Level 3
7 years ago

Netbackup 7.7.3 manually expired tapes not being pulled

 

Good day all,

We recently had expired tapes in the magazine and wanted to manually expire them so that they will be pulled for duplications. I used the bpexpdate command and successfully expired the tapes, however they were never pulled for duplication.

"bpexpdate -m “IXXXXXXL5” -d 0"

 I also tried adding the " infinity " switchI

Now when reviewing the tapes I see they have no retention level = 0 and I suspect this is the cause. Can anyone lend some guidance?

7.7
Windows Server 2008
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    7 years ago

    bpexpdate -d 0 -m <media-id> 
    is the correct command.

    If the Policy schedule retention levels are configured according to business needs, you should never need to manually expire tapes.
    Unexpired tapes/images need to be kept to restore from until they naturally expire.

    Insufficient media in the environment should never be a reason for manually expiring tapes.

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  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    Moderator
    7 years ago

    the infinity switch will cause the tapes never to expire. the -d 0 is the right switch to expire the data on tape.

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    7 years ago

    Please show us output of :

    nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid XXXXXXL5

    • cajunspirit's avatar
      cajunspirit
      Level 3
      7 years ago

      Good day,

      Please see command results below

      Tape 1

      NBEMMCMD, Version: 7.7.3
      ====================================================================
      Media GUID: 617445b1-7022-429c-87c1-305da55224f5
      Media ID: I20316
      Partner: -
      Media Type: HCART2
      Volume Group: ---
      Application: Netbackup
      Media Flags: 1
      Description: FCIS barcode rule
      Barcode: I20316L5
      Partner Barcode: --------
      Last Write Host: NONE
      Created: 05/22/2017 16:38
      Time Assigned: -
      First Mount: 05/22/2017 18:29
      Last Mount: 10/05/2017 00:20
      Volume Expiration: 10/10/2017 15:51
      Data Expiration: -
      Last Written: 10/05/2017 00:22
      Last Read: -
      Robot Type: NONE
      Robot Control Host: -
      Robot Number: -
      Slot: -
      Side/Face: -
      Cleanings Remaining: -
      Number of Mounts: 35
      Maximum Mounts Allowed: 0
      Media Status: ACTIVE
      Kilobytes: 0
      Images: 0
      Valid Images: 0
      Retention Period: -
      Number of Restores: 0
      Optical Header Size Bytes: 0
      Optical Sector Size Bytes: 0
      Optical Partition Size Bytes: 0
      Last Header Offset: 0
      Adamm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
      Rsm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
      Origin Host: NONE
      Master Host: is00nbr001
      Server Group: -
      Upgrade Conflicts Flag:
      Pool Number: 4
      Volume Pool: FCIS-Full
      Previous Pool Name: -
      Vault Flags: -
      Vault Container: -
      Vault Name: -
      Vault Slot: -
      Session ID: -
      Date Vaulted: -
      Return Date: -
      Media on Hold: 0
      ====================================================================
      Command completed successfully.

       

      Tape 2

      NBEMMCMD, Version: 7.7.3
      ====================================================================
      Media GUID: 9d7c3bd2-cb7d-49e4-b671-d1a20137e15e
      Media ID: 0123L5
      Partner: -
      Media Type: HCART2
      Volume Group: ---
      Application: Netbackup
      Media Flags: 1
      Description: FCIS barcode rule
      Barcode: I20123L5
      Partner Barcode: --------
      Last Write Host: NONE
      Created: 12/27/2013 23:58
      Time Assigned: -
      First Mount: 12/28/2013 23:33
      Last Mount: 04/28/2017 03:22
      Volume Expiration: 05/04/2017 17:45
      Data Expiration: -
      Last Written: 04/28/2017 03:21
      Last Read: -
      Robot Type: NONE
      Robot Control Host: -
      Robot Number: -
      Slot: -
      Side/Face: -
      Cleanings Remaining: -
      Number of Mounts: 29
      Maximum Mounts Allowed: 0
      Media Status: ACTIVE
      Kilobytes: 0
      Images: 0
      Valid Images: 0
      Retention Period: -
      Number of Restores: 0
      Optical Header Size Bytes: 0
      Optical Sector Size Bytes: 0
      Optical Partition Size Bytes: 0
      Last Header Offset: 0
      Adamm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
      Rsm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
      Origin Host: NONE
      Master Host: is00nbr001
      Server Group: -
      Upgrade Conflicts Flag:
      Pool Number: 4
      Volume Pool: FCIS-Full
      Previous Pool Name: -
      Vault Flags: -
      Vault Container: -
      Vault Name: -
      Vault Slot: -
      Session ID: -
      Date Vaulted: -
      Return Date: -
      Media on Hold: 0
      ====================================================================
      Command completed successfully.

      • Marianne's avatar
        Marianne
        Level 6
        7 years ago

        You did not only expire the data (using bpexpdate), you only expired the hardware (probably using the Media section of the GUI.

        Hardware expiration means that the tape is either too old to be trusted for backups or faulty.
        NBU does not do that - a backup admin does that manually.
        NBU default is 'never'.

        See your output:

        Tape 1:
        Volume Expiration: 10/10/2017 15:51
        Data Expiration: -

        Tape 2: 
        Volume Expiration: 05/04/2017 17:45
        Data Expiration: -