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NetBackup™ Status Codes Reference Guide

Media Manager status code 9

Message: invalid media type

Explanation: A process that performed a media-related operation encountered an unknown, missing, or incompatible media type specifier.

Recommended Action:

  • If you run a robot inventory on a robot of type ACS ensure that the installed version of NetBackup supports and recognizes the vendor media type that the robot control software returns.

  • If using a command-line interface directly, verify that a valid media type has been passed, according to vmadd(1m) command-line documentation.

  • Ensure that an operation valid only for cleaning media has not been requested on a media ID that does not correspond to the cleaning tape.

  • Ensure that the media type in all barcode rules is a valid media type or the ordinal zero (0), to represent the default media type.

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