Unable to expire VTL media

[ram619]

Hi all,

Am having bunch of VTL media's and duplicated those images to PTL. Now when i tried to expire the images in VTL by bpexpdate -m 00000 -d 0 it's giving the error as "Invalid command parameter". Also i have tried vmdelete -m 00000 it's giving error as "cannot delete assigned volume <92>" Still the media is not assigned.

Kindly provide some more idea to delete the images from the VTL media's.

[pikachu]

What version of NBU are you running?

Did you check any logs?

[ram619]

NBU version 6.5.6

[Marianne]

Are you using SLP to backup and duplicate images? If so, you will not be able to expire media as long they are 'owned' by SLP...

[ram619 · Accepted solution]

I found that the VTL database for the specific media's are corrupted. HEnce i have deleted those VTL media's from VTL admin console and recreated the tpaes.

Thanks all for your posting on this.

[Marianne]

You REALLY need to give us a bit more....

VTL database is not connected/related to EMM and/or NBU image database.

Corrupt VTL database does not explain why the tapes could not be expired in NBU...