Tapes will not become empty until ALL images on them have expired. My guess
is that most of the tapes still have at least one image that has not
expired. You might want to use duplication to copy active images to one or
more tapes, then expire the old tapes.

Patrick Whelan 
Consulting 
[NBU (with extensions) and Storage Migrator] 
[VxFS and Volume Manager]
pwhelan AT veritas DOT com
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net>  
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                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Andrey Shinkarev
[mailto:shinkara AT spartan.pprd.abbott DOT com]
                Sent:   Tuesday, April 04, 2000 4:15 PM
                To:     veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
                Subject:        [Veritas-bu] old tapes are not expired.

                Hello,

                Some time ago we had to switch expiration time on most of 
                our backups to infinity
                To do that we used:
                # bpexpdate -recalculate 
                command. Now we have some of our backups expired
                We did it using:
                # bpexpdate -backupid .. -d 0
                command. We expired up 60 % of all old backups
                which we switched to infinity expiration and we've got 
                no tapes expired. All of then are still full.
                We are expecting 100-200 expired tapes.
                Last time we had this situation Veritas suggested us
                to use
                # vmquery -deassignbyid 
                command. We can't use it now becouse we still
                have to keep some backups and can't deassign 
                tapes based on time when they were written. 
                What can we do to make NetBackup check
                expired tapes? 

                - The latest patch was applied. 
                - bptm -delete_expired doesn't help.

                Thanks,
                -- 
                ----
                Andrew Shinkarev
                Abbott Labs
                (847) 9387559
                shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com

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