bpexpedate -deassignempty hanging

[Threedot]

Here's the situation:

1.) We run bpexpdate -deassignempty to free up tapes (as part of a cron script)
2.) We have a given media server that is unreachable
3.) bpexpdate fails due to unreachable server

Is there a way to tell bpexpdate to "move on" if a server is unreachable?

We are running bpexpdate -force -deassignempty

 

[RustyMajor]

I think you would have to wait for the command to time out before it moves on. So is it really hanging or is it just taking longer than you want to wait ?

What about checking your list of tapes first to see if it returns something? If this server is permanently unavailable, move the mediadb entry for those tapes to another server (bpmedia -movedb -m <mediaid> -newserver <newserverhostname>).

 

[slayml]

Do an NBCC -full -nozip with the latest NBCC from Symantec, open a case and send them the results. You have "zero-byte" header files in your catalog and before the command will deassignempty, you MUST get rid of the "zero-byte" header files. I just went through all of this before my recent upgrade to 6.5.1.