07-02-2013 11:48 AM
Hi,
Exuse my newbie question, but I come from a BeckupExec background where things are much different...how can I reuse a tape that has at least one image on it and is assigned to a media pool other than Scratch? I tried to expire the media and then move it to the Scratch media pool, but NB wouldn;t let me saying the tape is already assigned or has images on it.
Please explain...in BE all I had to do was drag the tape from the media pool to the Scratch pool and done!
Thanks
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07-02-2013 11:55 AM
I'm not going to repeat what's already been wrote before, read this post:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/how-expire-backup-images-move-media-scratch-pool
Cut N Paste:
<Install_Path>\Program Files\Veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\bpmedialist -m <media_id>
bpexpdate -m <media_id> -d 0 -force
<Install_Path>\program files\veritas\volmgr\bin\vmquery –m <Media_Id>
C:\Program Files\Veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\bpexpdate -deassignempty -m <media_id>
vmchange –p <destination_pool_number> -m <media_id>
07-02-2013 11:55 AM
I'm not going to repeat what's already been wrote before, read this post:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/how-expire-backup-images-move-media-scratch-pool
Cut N Paste:
<Install_Path>\Program Files\Veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\bpmedialist -m <media_id>
bpexpdate -m <media_id> -d 0 -force
<Install_Path>\program files\veritas\volmgr\bin\vmquery –m <Media_Id>
C:\Program Files\Veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\bpexpdate -deassignempty -m <media_id>
vmchange –p <destination_pool_number> -m <media_id>
07-02-2013 12:07 PM
How are you trying to expire the tape?
There are 2 expiration dates associated with a tape -
1) hardware expiration date - meaning tape is too old to be used anymore
2) image expiration - when all images have expired, the tape can be overwritten.
Expire images on tape with:
bpexpdate -m <media-id> -d 0
07-02-2013 01:45 PM