Regarding expiring and importing media, even with the alternate server restore capabilities, it may be necessary to expire media and then import it.

Regarding identifying media spanning groups, an alternate server restore operation can include media IDs that contain backup images that span media. It may be necessary to identify the media IDs that contain fragments of the spanned images. The group of related media is called a media spanning group.

To identify the media in a specific media spanning group, run the following command as administrator from the command prompt on the NetBackup master server:

cd install_path\NetBackup\bin
bpimmedia.exe -spangroups -U -mediaid media_id

To display all media in all spanning groups, omit -mediaid media_id from the command.