Problem GENERAL ERROR: When attempting to expire a media in Veritas NetBackup ™ 6.5 with the bpexpdate command, the message “requested media id was not found in the EMM database” is received. Error Requested media id was not found in the EMM database Solution Overview: When attempting to expire a media in NetBackup 6.5 with [...]
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Experienced on Symantec NetBackup 7 on Server 2008 R2 restoring VMs on vSphere 4.1 Discussed and solved here: Symantec Support forum post Issue: Backing up VMs go smooth although testing out restoring a vm (to its original location) after I delete it from disk through vSphere. I kicked off the restore, vSphere did create the [...]
- NetBackup 7, Server 2008 R2 Ran into an issue where our old backup server was no longer operational and we had to create a new NetBackup server along with upgrading the version. Had to recall all our tapes to import them into the catalog. Here is what needed to be done for each tape [...]
- Performed on NetBackup 7 with Server 2008 R2 The other day we had some dlt tapes sent from our site to import into our local enviornment. We had trouble with the import because the media type recorded for the images was (HCART3) and the local enviornment uses (HCART). You can manually go into the [...]
- Ran on NetBackup 7 on Server 2008 R2 First you need to make sure that there are no valid images on the tape that you want: NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpimmedia -mediaid -L If there are no images that you need, expire the tape: NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpexpdate -m -d 0 -host -force This expires the images in the media database [...]
