Netbackup cannot change to other Volume Pool

Hi Dion

You are right, the tape had been assigned before and there are data in the media. In this case, is there anything i can do to reassign such media to other Volume Pool without overwrite the data inside the media? What i want to do is, just re-assign this media to other pool and use it to carry on backup other data.

Thanks

Jack

Jack

As far as I can remember, there was a technote about it but it is definitely not recommended as you can land up with database inconsistencies (not good!).  So unless there is a new way that I don't know about, I would guess that the best is to duplicate from the existing media to new media in the pool you want and then expire the copies on the original media.  This will allow you to free them up and put them back into a scratch pool (or new pool).

Just a note about expiring images on the unwanted pool (if you choose this route), just make sure that you only expire the unwanted copy of you backups and not all of them.  e.g Copy 1 is on the media you don't want and Copy 2 will be the new, duplicated, backup images.

Maybe someone else know about an easier way?

Cheers

I was scrolling through this issue to find a solution as well.

My solution is to freeze the tape for now so it would not be written on to.

NBU would be taking other tapes in that pool and until it expired or waiting for next tape exchange , you would be safe :)