Hiii experts
NBU master 7.5.0.6 OS window 2003, NBU appliance 5220 2.5.6, I have a situation in my NBU setup. In GUI -- media -- various media's have difference between 2 columns images and valid images. Noticed this problem recently. I only perform tape copy/duplication on them for long term retention.
Single retention images saved on media. No data on media has expired. duplication job failed while doing tape copy on these 2 media.
taking example of 2 media's 1065L4 and 1062L4. Kilobytes , Images, Valid Images. differ from output of bpimmedia and nbemmcmd.
Images on media means: number of images written on media(successful+failed), Valid images means: number of successfull images written on media. Do netbackup clear or remove those failed images from media ?? Please share descriptive explaination
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpimmedia -U -tape -mediaid 1065L4
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Backup-ID: NAS1_1406955603
Policy: NDMP_Vol1_SnapM
Schedule Type: FULL
Retention Level 1
Number of Files: 10
Compression: N
Encryption: N
Image Type: Regular
Primary Copy: 2
Expires: 07:00 09/02/2014
Image on Hold: 0
Indexing Status: 0
Copy Number: 3
Fragment Number: IDX
Fragment Size (KB): 4
Media Type: RMed
Density: hcart
File Number: 2
Offset: 13412034
Host: mediaserver3
Device Written On: 2
MPX: -
Expires: -
Retention Level: -
MediaID: 1065L4
Copy on Hold: 0
Copy Number: 3
Fragment Number: 3
Fragment Size (KB): 858369920
Media Type: RMed
Density: hcart
File Number: 1
Offset: 2
Host: mediaserver3
Device Written On: 2
MPX: -
Expires: -
Retention Level: -
MediaID: 1065L4
Copy on Hold: 0
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpimmedia -U -tape -mediaid 1062L4
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Backup-ID: NAS2_1406948411
Policy: NDMP_VolSolaris_SnapM
Schedule Type: FULL
Retention Level 1
Number of Files: 7
Compression: N
Encryption: N
Image Type: Regular
Primary Copy: 2
Expires: 05:00 09/02/2014
Image on Hold: 0
Indexing Status: 0
Copy Number: 3
Fragment Number: IDX
Fragment Size (KB): 4
Media Type: RMed
Density: hcart
File Number: 2
Offset: 525387
Host: mediaserver1
Device Written On: 3
MPX: -
Expires: -
Retention Level: -
MediaID: 1062L4
Copy on Hold: 0
Copy Number: 3
Fragment Number: 2
Fragment Size (KB): 67249024
Media Type: RMed
Density: hcart
File Number: 1
Offset: 2
Host: mediaserver1
Device Written On: 3
MPX: -
Expires: -
Retention Level: -
MediaID: 1062L4
Copy on Hold: 0
NBEMMCMD, Version: 7.5.0.6
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid 1065L4
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Media GUID: a8664cfe-ea61-44b2-a98c-1b00ffd2462b
Media ID: 1065L4
Partner: -
Media Type: HCART
Volume Group: 000_00001_TLD
Application: Netbackup
Media Flags: 1
Description: ---
Barcode: 011065L4
Partner Barcode: --------
Last Write Host: mediaserver1
Created: 08/07/2014 14:13
Time Assigned: 08/13/2014 23:31
First Mount: 08/08/2014 12:50
Last Mount: 08/16/2014 16:24
Volume Expiration: -
Data Expiration: 08/22/2017 07:00
Last Written: 08/15/2014 00:38
Last Read: -
Robot Type: TLD
Robot Control Host: MASTER
Robot Number: 1
Slot: 10
Side/Face: -
Cleanings Remaining: -
Number of Mounts: 7
Maximum Mounts Allowed: 999
Media Status: FULL
Kilobytes: 1360165508
Images: 3
Valid Images: 2
Retention Period: 24
Number of Restores: 0
Optical Header Size Bytes: 1024
Optical Sector Size Bytes: 0
Optical Partition Size Bytes: 0
Last Header Offset: 13412037
Adamm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Rsm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Origin Host: NONE
Master Host: MASTER
Server Group: UNRESTRICTED_SHARING_GROUP
Upgrade Conflicts Flag:
Pool Number: 32
Volume Pool: Madrid
Previous Pool Name: scratch
Vault Flags: -
Vault Container: -
Vault Name: -
Vault Slot: -
Session ID: -
Date Vaulted: -
Return Date: -
Media on Hold: 0
====================================================================
Command completed successfully.
NBEMMCMD, Version: 7.5.0.6
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid 1062L4
====================================================================
Media GUID: ca090c33-e025-4116-a25b-37118310e164
Media ID: 1062L4
Partner: -
Media Type: HCART
Volume Group: ---
Application: Netbackup
Media Flags: 1
Description: ---
Barcode: 011062L4
Partner Barcode: --------
Last Write Host: mediaserver3
Created: 08/07/2014 14:13
Time Assigned: 08/07/2014 01:48
First Mount: 08/08/2014 12:51
Last Mount: 08/11/2014 19:36
Volume Expiration: -
Data Expiration: 08/24/2017 12:46
Last Written: 08/11/2014 13:29
Last Read: -
Robot Type: NONE
Robot Control Host: -
Robot Number: -
Slot: -
Side/Face: -
Cleanings Remaining: -
Number of Mounts: 3
Maximum Mounts Allowed: 999
Media Status: FULL
Kilobytes: 1854468292
Images: 4
Valid Images: 2
Retention Period: 24
Number of Restores: 0
Optical Header Size Bytes: 1024
Optical Sector Size Bytes: 0
Optical Partition Size Bytes: 0
Last Header Offset: 0
Adamm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Rsm Guid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Origin Host: NONE
Master Host: MASTER
Server Group: UNRESTRICTED_SHARING_GROUP
Upgrade Conflicts Flag:
Pool Number: 32
Volume Pool: Madrid
Previous Pool Name: scratch
Vault Flags: -
Vault Container: -
Vault Name: -
Vault Slot: -
Session ID: -
Date Vaulted: -
Return Date: -
Media on Hold: 0
====================================================================
Command completed successfully.