[Veritas-bu] Expiring tapes ...
2000-11-29 16:51:13
Run bpexpdate -d 0 -ev <media id number> to expire the tapes.
You should then be able to delete them from the database and re-inventory
the L700, placing the tapes back in the scratch pool.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Edward Carr wrote:
> Oh Masterfull Ones ...
>
> I ran a backup last night only to find today the the slice where my
> netbackup db resides was at 100% ... Thus when trying to do a restore today
> it cannot find any of the files that I backed up last night. Now I have
> resolved the space issue, but I would like to blow away the data on the four
> tapes. How do I force the expiration of tapes? I tried in Media Management
> to expire the tapes, but that does not seem to work. Any hints on how to
> return the four tapes to the scratch pool?
>
> System Info:
> Solaris 2.6 on an UE4500 connected via SAN to a StorageTek L700 with 6
> 9840
> Fiber drives. Running NBU 3.2GA ...
>
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Ted Carr
>
> "Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
> for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
>
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