[Veritas-bu] erase tapes...

Hello,
I have just tjhis sequence of messages below:

(Just a quick note that after a bpexpdate -d 0 -ev
XXXXXX command, the tape is erased of images but
normally doesn't come available right away for reuse. 
There's an occaisional process that will return tapes
that are deleted of images to available status.  You
can force the run of this with:

bpexpdate -deassignempty -ev XXXXXX 

...after you do the "-d 0" part above. 

You can then move the tape to whatever pool you wish. 
-Mark 

-----Original Message----- 
From: WEAVER, Simon
[mailto:Simon.WEAVER AT astrium-space DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:39 AM 
To: 'jago' 
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
Subject: RE: [[Veritas-bu] erase tapes that are
full...] 



Hello 
Ok that is the method I was using, but I would like to
"reuse them" again. 
So do I only need to run BPEXPDATE once, then move the
tape into my Scratch 
Pool and that should make it available for use? 

Simon Weaver 
NT Domain Administrator 
Ext. 5544 
Tel: 02392-705544 (Direct Dial) 
Simon.Weaver AT Astrium-Space DOT com 

-----Original Message----- 
From: jago [mailto:javier.graf AT usa DOT net] 
Sent: 20 May 2002 09:27:AM 
To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; 
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
Subject: Re: [[Veritas-bu] erase tapes that are
full...] 

Hello Simon, 

First you must expirate the media (I think you used
the command bpexpdate -d 
(date) -ev (mediaid), but then you must delete the
media in order to "erase" 
them from your media db. 
By the way Full MPX means a full tape with multiple
retensions, but MPX only 
.... 

Javier 
)
well I had expired one media using bpexpdate -d 0 and
i couldn't reuse it again.then I tried bpexpdate
-deassignempty -ev XXXXXX as you said but i didn't
work (no media follow given criteria) and when i tried
it for the second time (no changes made).
to verify, I used bpmedialisqt|grep
media-id-in-question
and I got no result(no raw).
  What do you think?
Thank you in advance
 


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