03-14-2013 06:20 AM
I am trying to generate a report of tapes that had expired, so we can reuse it.
What is the best way to get this tape report?
NetBackup 7.5, Windows 2008 R2
thanks in advance.
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03-14-2013 06:42 AM
Run available_media from cmd.
Command is in <install-path>\veritas\netbackup\bin\goodies.
Send output to a text file in a temp folder.
To keep an eye on when tapes will expire, use Media Summary report in the GUI - tick the Verbose option.
This report will give you a list of unexpired tapes with expiration dates, not already expired tapes.
**** Oops! too slow! ****
03-14-2013 06:42 AM
Run available_media from cmd.
Command is in <install-path>\veritas\netbackup\bin\goodies.
Send output to a text file in a temp folder.
To keep an eye on when tapes will expire, use Media Summary report in the GUI - tick the Verbose option.
This report will give you a list of unexpired tapes with expiration dates, not already expired tapes.
**** Oops! too slow! ****
03-14-2013 06:42 AM
You could probably attack this from several different routes
e.g.
03-14-2013 06:48 AM
**** Oops! too slow! ****
That must've been by a millisecond only!
We also used to script a variation of the bpmedialist command (similar to the 'Tape Summary' report in the GUI) to determine which media would expire *next* - so we could expire them early if we were having media availability 'issues' .....
03-14-2013 08:20 AM
thanks for the answers, the available_media script works well. But can't find the media server info which used it. Since we have media servers in diffrent sites, its difficult to find the tape location..
* we used same pool name in all site :(
03-14-2013 03:31 PM
When a tape has expired, the media server assignment is removed.
Media server is only associated with assigned tapes - best to keep an eye on tapes that are about to expire with Tape Summary report.