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Moley's avatar
Moley
Level 3
13 years ago

requested media id is not assigned to this host in the EMM database

Hi, I am having an issue where I can't delete a tape from Netbackup from the command line. You can delete OK from the GUI. I have a bulk load of tapes I want to delete from the command line. On...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    The message is 100% correct: "requested media id is not assigned ..."

    There is nothing to expire - bpexpdate expires images associated with media-id. Have another look at the output:

    Last Write Host:                NONE                               
    Created:                        12/29/2009 13:43                   
    Time Assigned:                  -                                  
    First Mount:                    01/07/2010 02:47                   
    Last Mount:                     09/16/2010 10:38                   
    Volume Expiration:              -                                  
    Data Expiration:                -                                 

     

    If you want to delete the media-id from EMM database, use vmdelete:

    Usage: vmdelete [-h <EMM_server> | <volume_database_host>]
               [-m <media_id> | -v <volume_group>]

watsons's avatar
watsons
Level 6
13 years ago

bpexpdate command does not delete a media for you, it simply means expiring the image from the media.

I didn't see your attempt to try deleting media from CLI.

You may want to try the following command, but you need to be VERY SURE that your media DOES NOT contain any valid image (expired) and is good for deletion from Netbackup.  This will be like removing the media from the GUI.

# nbemmcmd -deletemedia -mediaid 007665