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gnussbaum
Level 3
14 years ago

bpexpdate -deassignempty shows 70 tapes that SHOULDN'T be deassigned

Hello again :) I ran a 'bpexpdate -deassignempty' on my Netbackup server and it's listing approx 70 pieces of media that it wants to deassign that shouldn't be.  These tapes are offsite tapes that ...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    14 years ago

    Media will only be deassigned when all images have expired according to the retention period that was set in the policy.

    Run reports such as 'Images on media' or 'Media List'/'Tape List' report to see expiration date of images/media.

    If images have not yet expired, you can change expiration date with bpexpdate.

    Also check system date - I have recently seen a situation where a master was migrated to new hardware. The admins did not realize that the date was about 1 month in the future after new O/S installation. Once NBU was recovered and services restarted, a large number of images/media was expired as a result of the incorrect system date.

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Marianne
Level 6
14 years ago

Media will only be deassigned when all images have expired according to the retention period that was set in the policy.

Run reports such as 'Images on media' or 'Media List'/'Tape List' report to see expiration date of images/media.

If images have not yet expired, you can change expiration date with bpexpdate.

Also check system date - I have recently seen a situation where a master was migrated to new hardware. The admins did not realize that the date was about 1 month in the future after new O/S installation. Once NBU was recovered and services restarted, a large number of images/media was expired as a result of the incorrect system date.