Media Full

[H_Sharma]

Hi Experts,

We have LTO-6 tapes and using Win 2008 server as Master.

I need to know how to check which media is full so that we can remove these from library.

Thanks, 

[Pangal]

Go to robots in the netbackup console , media status will show whether tape is full or not.

[H_Sharma]

Its showing full MPX. But it has less than 1 tb and LTO 6 has 2.5 TB capacity.

There are Many tapes with Full MPX so is it fine to remove these from library?

[Pangal · Accepted solution]

Yes full mpx means tapes are full , you can remove it from library .

[Pangal]

Regarding your second query . This will help you

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/understanding-how-nerbackup-writes-tape.

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Hopefully you have not enabled multiple retentions on tape?
As explained over here:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/retention-period-5 
You can end up with expired short-term images and 1 year images on the same tape.
Media reports will only show the size of unexpired images. 

Have another look at this post: 
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/tape-size-0#comment-10365501