Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues

2008-03-26 Thread Jeff Cleverley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, all you should have to do is bpexpdate the tape number and the tape should be reusable. That has worked in the past. It just seems to be this one batch had problems. deassignbyid is a bit of a big hammer to use casually. I'd do: bpexpdate -d 0 -m

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues

2008-03-18 Thread Mark.Donaldson
, 2008 9:08 AM To: Paul Keating Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues Paul, As mentioned, I only inherited the environment :-) I was told that the reason this was being done was they wanted to have the tapes and sessions protected

[Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Greetings, I saw a post similar to this problem in February, but didn't really see an answer posted. I'm hoping someone can help me out. This is a 5.1 master running NDMP backups. The standard media policy is that they protected the data permanently and then expired the media once the tapes

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues

2008-03-17 Thread Paul Keating
project. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Cleverley Sent: March 17, 2008 5:47 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues Greetings, I saw a post similar

Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Paul, As mentioned, I only inherited the environment :-) I was told that the reason this was being done was they wanted to have the tapes and sessions protected until they decided to explicitly unprotect them. I think it stemmed more from paranoia and lack of understanding from the