Since upgrading to NBU 7.0.1 my customer's expired media are not moving back to the scratch pool. (NBU Master Server: Windows 2008)
I checked the emm database config using "C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>nbemmcmd -listsettings -machinename master"
RETURN_UNASSIGNED_MEDIA_TO_SCRATCH_POOL="yes"
Then I did a spot check of some media that should be expired to make sure that the media’s original pool was scratch media
"C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid 001335"
Volume Pool: NetBackup
Previous Pool Name: Scratch
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Media GUID: 85c7e62a-89d3-4f10-b3ad-ee03d63d0c95
Media ID: 001335
Partner: -
Media Type: HCART3
Volume Group: ---
Application: Netbackup
Media Flags: 1
Description: ---
Barcode: 001335L3
Partner Barcode: --------
Last Write Host: deluge
Created: 10/30/2009 15:09
Time Assigned: 02/09/2011 17:30
First Mount: 10/30/2009 19:37
Last Mount: 02/14/2011 18:16
Volume Expiration: -
Data Expiration: 02/28/2011 19:10
Last Written: 02/14/2011 19:00
Last Read: -
Robot Type: NONE
Robot Control Host: -
Robot Number: -
Slot: -
Side/Face: -
Cleanings Remaining: -
Number of Mounts: 24
Maximum Mounts Allowed: 0
Media Status: FULL MPX
Kilobytes: 565012457
Images: 138
Valid Images: 138
Retention Period: 1
Number of Restores: 0
Optical Header Size Bytes: 1024
Optical Sector Size Bytes: 0
Optical Partition Size Bytes: 0
Last Header Offset: 4453036
Adamm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Rsm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Origin Host: NONE
Master Host: deluge
Server Group: NO_SHARING_GROUP
Upgrade Conflicts Flag:
Pool Number: 1
Volume Pool: NetBackup
Previous Pool Name: Scratch
Vault Flags: -
Vault Container: -
Vault Name: -
Vault Slot: -
Session ID: -
Date Vaulted: -
Return Date: -
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I tried to manually reassign empty tapes into the scratch pool with "C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpexpdate -deassignempty –force"
Deassigned 0 out of 693 media-ids found.
I have been able to get around this by selecting "freeze" and then "unfreeze" on the media and at this point they move to the scratch pool - but the next time they are due to expire again I have the same issue all over again.
I checked the forums and have also tried the following:
C:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\vm.conf updated with
SCRATCH_POOL = Scratch
Checked that $INSTALL\NetBackup\bin\deassign_lock file does not exist
Checked that <install path>\Netbackup\bin\NOexpire file does not exist
Ran <install path>\Netbackup\bin\bpdbm -ctime <10-digit number> against the contents of <install path>\Netbackup\bin\bpsched.d\last_time_expired_media
1299023096 = Tue Mar 01 23:44:56 2011
Netbackup\bin\bpsched.d\CHECK_EXPIRED_MEDIA_INTERVAL file does not exist - do I need to create this?
I'm not sure what to check now, have I forgotton anything or should I log a symantec case?
Thank you
Jenni
