Via the bpdbm -consistency report we have identified some inconsistencies in our Netbackup catalogs. Basically we have some images in our image database (ie. images on media report) that shouldn't be there, they should have expired long ago, relating to expired tapes that no longer appear in the media database (ie. media list report) or volume database (ie. media and device manager GUI). We normally use bpexpdate to expire the tapes (and images) but for some reason it doesn't appear to have deleted the image files themselves.
I have a list of all the tapes I need to expire the images on...what bp command would I use to expire/delete all the images from the database properly? I can't use bpexpdate -ev <mediaid>, because the tapes aren't in the media database, when I try bpexpdate complains that the media ID's don't exist and doesn't do anything.
I know I can delete the image files manually through Windows...but there are lots of them, and I want to try and do all this through Netbackup rather than 'via the back door' and don't want to inadvertantly cause even more inconsistencies....
Please can anyone help?
Thank you
M
I have a list of all the tapes I need to expire the images on...what bp command would I use to expire/delete all the images from the database properly? I can't use bpexpdate -ev <mediaid>, because the tapes aren't in the media database, when I try bpexpdate complains that the media ID's don't exist and doesn't do anything.
I know I can delete the image files manually through Windows...but there are lots of them, and I want to try and do all this through Netbackup rather than 'via the back door' and don't want to inadvertantly cause even more inconsistencies....
Please can anyone help?
Thank you
M