[Veritas-bu] Where are the free tapes?

if you do 

vmquery -a -bx | grep -i tld 

This is what you will see in your media manager 
interface.  Look at the time assigned field if it is 
anything other than --- the tape is not available for 
re-use.  

Additionally, you may be running into a problem of 
plenty of tapes but none of the same retention level as 
the scheduled backs that ran last night.  If that is 
the case, Netbackup by default, will not co-locate 
mixed retention level backups.  You can change that in 
your server bp.conf file, but it isn't recommended.  

available_media in the goodies directory will give you 
the status of the media.  That's the closest thing to 
finding out what's 'writeable' without including a big 
script here.

good luck.

-David Chapa
DataStaff, Inc.

Quoting Arthur Darren Dunham <add AT netcom DOT com>:

> Netbackup complained that I'm out of free tapes last 
night.  So this
> morning I ran a media report on that media server.  
> 
> When I do, it shows me 8 FULL tapes.  Since there are 
37 tapes in the
> robot, are the rest empty?  
> 
> When I run a 'media contents' report on one of the 
tapes that doesn't
> get reported as full, this is what I get.
> 
> [sjc01-netbackup] media id = HQ1001, allocated 
04/11/00 20:40,
> retention level = 0
> 
> [sjc01-netbackup] File number 1
> [sjc01-netbackup]   Backup id = proddw_0955500044
> [sjc01-netbackup]   Creation date = 04/11/00 20:40
> [sjc01-netbackup]   Expiration date = 04/18/00 20:40
> [sjc01-netbackup]   Retention level = 0
> [sjc01-netbackup]   Copy number = 1
> [sjc01-netbackup]   Fragment number = 2
> [sjc01-netbackup]   Block size (in bytes) = 32768
> 
> 
> I can't run a 'images on media' report for this 
volume, the report
> dies.  It only allows the other 8 tapes to be used.  
I presume from
> this that the media has no images on it.  
> 
> Is there a specific command I can run to ask "how 
many writeable tapes
> are present in this robot?"
> 
> Thanks...
> -- 
> Darren 
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