Michael,

There are two ways to deal with this.

1. When the the Vault pick list report is run, this should expire any
DBBACKUP duplicate tapes that are due to expire.   They will then be of
in status AVAILABLE to be used again for db backups under vault control.

2. You can do this by hand using vmquery -deassignbyid.   You will need to
also run bplabel against the media if you want to re-use it for regular
backups.

Page 41 of the vault admin guide discusses this in more detail.

Regards,

Jon

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Arterburn, Michael wrote:

> Is there a bpvault mailing list?  if so, what is it?
> 
> I have vault duplicating my netbackup database everyday and sending it
> offsite.  Once the tapes are in the NBDB_Duplicate pool, they are never
> written over or expired.  How do I make these expire?  What is the best
> practice for somone who wants to duplicate thier database everyday?  
> 
> Right now, I have a script that is putting a scratch tape into that pool
> everday, but this is starting to add up and I need to find a fix quickly.
> 
> Thank you for all of your help,
> 
>       Michael Arterburn
>       Arvin Meritor <<http://www.arvinmeritor.com>>
>       Michael.Arterburn AT ArvinMeritor DOT com
>       Phone: 812.379.3315
>       Cell: 812.390.6508
>       Pager: 812.370.1343
> 
>       From my PC... through the LAN...  over the data cables... to the
> ISP... out of the proxies... nothing but net!
> 
> :wq!
> 
>