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Veritas NetBackup™ Status Codes Reference Guide

Last Published: 2019-07-01

Product(s): NetBackup (8.2)

Media Manager status code 8

Message: invalid media ID

Explanation: When a process performed a media-related operation, it encountered an empty or an incorrectly formatted media identifier. Or a media ID that was passed to it cannot be operated on as requested.

Recommended Action:

Examine the command output, debug logs, and system logs for a more detailed message on the error.
See "Setting Media Manager debug logging to a higher level" in the NetBackup Logging Reference Guide.
Ensure that the media ID, where requested, is not blank.
Ensure that the specified media IDs contain valid characters only: alphanumeric characters, the period (.), the plus sign (+), and the underscore (_). A hyphen (-) is also a valid character when not the first character in the media ID.
If media are specified to be ejected from a library, ensure the following: they exist in the EMM database and are associated with the correct robot number.
Ensure that the media ID is from 1 to 6 characters in length.
Ensure that a valid media and seed were specified.
If the operation is an inventory request for an ACS robot, use the robtest utility to verify the following: the ACS interface returns cleaning media IDs both in the query volume list and in the query cleaning volume list.