01-25-2024 03:05 PM
I have a few thousand Tapes that have been shredded. I have the tapes list. I can create a list easily.
I try from bpimmedia command to list the BackupID present on each tapes.
I only need the BackupID to create a list that I will be able to use to expired images from the Catalog.
Is there a way to create that list from a command line where I'll be able to call a command and parse the Tapes list and create a txt file with all BackupID only ???
Presently it give me all this info but I just need the first :
Backup-ID Policy Type RL Files C E T PC Hold Expires DTE-Mode
Copy Frag KB Type Density FNum Off Host DWO MPX Expires RL Hold MediaID
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Thanks in advance !
01-26-2024 08:13 AM
Expired images cannot be listed using any of the commands, if this is your question & read it correctly.
on linux you try - bpimmedia -mediaid 0D1361 -L | awk '{print $1}'
If you want to expire a tape from netbackup you can do so using - bpexpdate -m media_id -d 0
Please make sure you are 100% sure you want to expire the tape before executing the command as this is not reversible.
01-26-2024 08:59 AM
Thanks for the reply.
What I need is this :
Have a thousand tapes destroyed but they don't expired anything from NetBackup first.
I can go and expired the tape from NetBackup (Easy) but I want to make sure I expired the images and not the tape.
Why ? because if the images are spread on many tapes I will let images information in NetBackup (Orphan)
I just want to do the best Catalog cleanup. By expiring Images and not only tape.