"found no images or media matching" but the tape is in the robot

[Dan173]

hi

we use netbackup 3.2 (unix) and a tape library.

we have a pool called "clones". the pool has several physical tapes but only 3 media-ids. this pool is used to duplicate the backups and we put those duplicate tapes in a bank box. media id 1 should always be used for daily copies, media id 2 for weekly and media id 3 for monthly duplicates.

a script freezes (bpmedia -freeze -ev mediaid) the other 2 tapes, so that only the proper one should be available for the copy (bpduplicate ....) and after that bpmedia -unfreez -ev mediaid.

Here is my problem: the monthly duplication didnt work. i tried to start it manualy. i get following message: found no images or media matching the selection criteria.

if i check with the netbackup gui the robot inventory i see, that a tape with media id 3 is in it (i let the inventory run several times). but when i check with the netbackup gui the media report it doesnt show me the tape there. if i check with the available_media script, it shows me that the correct tape is available.

i removed the tape from the robot, runed inventory, put the tape back in the robot, runed inventory again.

i used vmquery -assign ... , didnt help, vmquery -deassign , deleted the tape from the pool ...

nothing helped, all day long i tried to get this to work but netbackup just didnt want to use media id 3.

one day later i come to the office, check the logs, and realize that the daily duplicat, that should have been made to media id 1, was made to media id 3!!

maybe should i ask a priest to do an exorzism? (kidding)

any help is appreciateed. thanks.

 

[Dan173]

oh, first problem is solved:
the message "found no images or media matching the selection criteria" doesnt mean, that there is no free tape to make the duplicate to, as i thought. it means that there are no "original" backups to duplicate. the bpduplicate command uses a parameter called -hoursago. And this time was set shorter then the latest original backups was made.

but i still have the second problem:
the duplication skript is set up like this:

# Deleting CDR233 from the Database to reuse the tape as an empty one
bpexpdate -ev CDR233 -d 0 -force
# For real (monthly_full is the schedule name for all monthly fullbackups)
bpmedia -freeze -ev CDR231
bpmedia -freeze -ev CDR232
bpduplicate -dstunit L1000_library -sl monthly_full_safe -dp clones -hoursago 264 -L $LOGFILE
bpmedia -unfreeze -ev CDR231
bpmedia -unfreeze -ev CDR232

since mediaid 1 (CDR231) and mediaid 2 (CDR232) are frozen, the duplicate should only be made to mediaid 3 (CDR233). but thats not reliable working.

any ideas? thanks.