12-23-2015 07:30 PM
I have NBU 7.6.0.4.
Backing up just 2 client machines.
Device connected is a stand alone tape drive.
Yearly backup is scheduled on 25th Dec.
Local facilities is going for vacation from 24th. Hence on 23rd morning, I excluded daily backup for 23rd and 24th and inserted a scratch tape for the yearly backup.
I missed to exclude daily catalog backup.
Today is 24th and when I verified the tape obviously I saw catalog backup occupied the tape and the media pool is changed to DAILY.
Now I have to expire the catalog image from the tape.
On NBU gui, Catalog >> Choose the tape >> List the catalog images >> right click and expire.
I went to reports >> Tape reports >> Images on tape Shows as below.
I went to reports >> Tape reports >> Tape contents Shows as below.
How Image on tape differs from tape contents ?
I went to media, right click and change pool to scratch. It said "Cannot change media pool of assigned media"
Later I tried this blog: http://www.veritas.com/community/blogs/how-expire-backup-images-move-media-scratch-pool which helped me to change the media to scratch tape.
Now when I check tape contents still it shows the same results.
My second question is, since I'm using a stand alone tape drive, is there a way I can set the tape drive not to eject the existing tape out if the desired media is not in the drive ?
12-23-2015 07:49 PM
12-28-2015 02:12 PM
There is an "do not eject standalone drives' option setting in EMM, I'll have to look up the syntax.
It's something along the lines of
nbemmcmd -changesetting <option>=1 -masterserver <master_server_name> -emmserver <emmserver name>
12-30-2015 03:45 PM
roger that,
nbemmcmd -changesetting -do_not_eject_standalone 1 -machinename <masterserver>
12-30-2015 08:46 PM
01-04-2016 12:02 PM
Also note that catalog backup tapes are special. Normal image and tape expiration processes do not work for those. You have to unassign the tape and label it. Please check their tech note on this:
http://www.veritas.com/docs/000028235
Bryan
01-04-2016 12:38 PM
01-04-2016 01:38 PM
Thanks for the correction Marianne. (I haven't used catalog backup tapes since 6.5...)
01-04-2016 11:20 PM
Sorry for delay ...
nbemmcmd -changesetting -machinename <master server name> -DO_NOT_EJECT_STANDALONE yes