The tapes may still have valid images, that's why the
tapes are not deaasigned by NBU.

Shyam

--- Chandrasekhar Kalle <ckalle AT nms.fnc.fujitsu DOT com>
wrote:
> 
> In an attempt to expire some old images and 
> corresponding tapes and reduce the database
> size and get back some tapes for recycling,
> I did the following...
> 
> bpimagelist -client <client> -idonly 
> -d <start date> -e <end date> 
> 
> From the list of images generated by the
> above, I picked a few that we could safely
> delete and ran bpexpdate against each image:
> 
> bpexpdate -backupid <backup id> -d 0 -force
> 
> The above deleted the images, and database
> size went down. But, the tapes that contained
> the images were not expired or freed up
> automatically (I thought that when the backup
> image on a tape expires, Netbackup will
> deassign the tape and the tape can be recycled).
> 
> So now I have a whole bunch of tapes that
> can be recycled because the images on those
> tapes have been deleted, but I dont know the
> IDs. How do I get the IDs ?
> 
> bpimmedia -client <client> -d <start> -e <end>
> will only show the tapes with images that
> exist, not those that have been deleted...
> 
> Before I deleted the images, bpimagelist -media 
> -client <client> -d <start> -e <end> showed 
> the tape IDs of the backup images, but I
> did not save the output.....
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Chandra
> 
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