Tape expiration in mixed Master/Media Servers environment (6.5/5.1)
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 2 comments
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Hi,
I'm doing an upgrade of NetBackup to 6.5.3.1 in environment with multiple Media Servers. Master and some Media Servers are upgraded to 6.5.3.1, nbpushdata was successful etc.., and few 5.1MP7 Media Servers are waiting for upgrade. My question is: How to expire the tape (bpexpdate) which belongs to 5.1 Media Server. When bpexpdate is executed on Master Server there is an error that wrong host was selected. nbemmcmd -listhosts shows all media servers, but media owner of tapes used by 5.1 Media Servers is empty. After executing nbpushdata media owner property of tape is set to correct Media Server.
marekk
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bpexpdate
bpexpdate - Change the expiration date of backups media in
the media catalog.
SYNOPSIS
install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpexpdate -m media_id -d date [-host name] [-force] [-M master_server[,...,]]
this will expire the whole media so it will be available in scratch pool
another work around
you got all your media server details from NBEMMCMD -listhosts right; now run bpmedialist -mlist -l -h <media server>, for every media server, it will list all the media's avilable under your each media server, once you get list then use \bpexpdate -m <media_id> -d 0 [-force] [-M master_server[,...,]]
-M master_server
For NetBackup Enterprise Server:
If the command is run on a master server, then that server is the default.
If the command is run on a media server that is not the master, then the
master for that media server is the default.
regards, Srikanth.
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