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Phani_Kiran's avatar
Phani_Kiran
Level 3
20 years ago

requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume data

Hello Guys, hope you can help. I get the above mentioned message while trying to expire tapes. I've tried different switches but it just comes back with the same message. Switches I tried -

bpexpdate -d 0 -m
bpexpdate -d 0 -m -host

I've tried commands mentioned in this technote but no luck. VMQuery works but I cannot expire tapes from Media and Image databases.
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/241574.htm

There are hundreds of tapes which are in this state and completely unused.

Any more suggestion will be immensely appreciated.

Aah, btw... I unfroze few tapes and tried expiring the tapes but to no avail.

Thanks,
7.1.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
NetBackup

5 Replies

  • Tom_Neal's avatar
    Tom_Neal
    20 years ago
    Hello, I have had this same issue and I was able to expire them by using
    bpexpdate -deassignempty -m -d 0
  • Ankur_Kumar_2's avatar
    Ankur_Kumar_2
    Level 2
    20 years ago
    Tom you are very correct
    using bpexpdate -deassignbyid -m < media id> -d 0 could solve the issue
  • Gale_De_Los_San's avatar
    Gale_De_Los_San
    Level 4
    20 years ago
    Hmm.... was that -deassignbyid or -deassignempty with the bpexpdate command?

    I believe -deassignbyid is used with vmquery.
  • ole_gunner's avatar
    ole_gunner
    Level 3
    20 years ago
    Hi, are you running your command from the Master or on the Media server itself? I have experienced a similiar issue when running the command from the Master server, then when I ran it from the Media it worked. Apologies if you have already tried this