I don't know if my catalogs are out of sync or what, but everytime I do a backup, the catalog backup fails because its trying to mount a tape thats currently in an offsite group. I 've tried to deassignbyid and expire the tape, but when I try to delete, it says, "could not delete. It is assigned".
Now here's the entire story: all this started happening after I updated the firmware on my IBM 3853 lto drives. They now recognize that L1 at the end of the barcodes. When I did a inventory and update through netbackup, it added all these new tapes. (IE media id and barcode was 000000, but now 000000L1). Because I don't know of a way to change the media id I had to go through and delete all the old 000000 tape listings in NB and rescan. So now I've got 000000 id and 000000L1 barcode, which is fine. But there are about 5 out there that I can't delete and the tape that NB wants to use for that catalog backup that keeps failing is 1 of them. Anyway to delete these listings from NB? Please let me know if anyone has any ideas.
Now here's the entire story: all this started happening after I updated the firmware on my IBM 3853 lto drives. They now recognize that L1 at the end of the barcodes. When I did a inventory and update through netbackup, it added all these new tapes. (IE media id and barcode was 000000, but now 000000L1). Because I don't know of a way to change the media id I had to go through and delete all the old 000000 tape listings in NB and rescan. So now I've got 000000 id and 000000L1 barcode, which is fine. But there are about 5 out there that I can't delete and the tape that NB wants to use for that catalog backup that keeps failing is 1 of them. Anyway to delete these listings from NB? Please let me know if anyone has any ideas.