I'll assume you've done the 

bpexpdate

business against the media id already.

is the media frozen?

Even if you expire with bpexpdate and the media is 
currently frozen, it will not be removed from the 
mediaDB.

-David

Quoting Charles Jordan <charles.jordan AT convergys DOT com>:

> Hi all,
> I have a tape I am trying to delete from NetBackup 3.4
> It only shows up when I do a bpmedialist -summary and
> when I do 
a "strings /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/mediaDB
> I've tried just about everything but I just can't get 
rid
> of it.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
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