Reuseable tape report

[Nelson_Thomas]

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.

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

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! ****

[Andy_Welburn]

You could probably attack this from several different routes

e.g.

• GUI under media - any that are unassigned (nothing in time assigned column)
• 'AVAILABLE' media in the available_media script in 'goodies' install area

[Andy_Welburn]

**** 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' .....

[Nelson_Thomas]

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 :(

[Marianne]

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.