If you expire the primary image, the second copy is automatically promoted
to the primary copy.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Royer [mailto:jroyer AT colltech DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:52 PM
To: Rob Worman
Cc: Markham, Richard; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate tapes Time Assigned missing


Aren't you supposed to make the duplicate primary before you expire
the original?  Could this be the problem?


On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Rob Worman wrote:

> At 1:07 PM -0500 12/9/03, Markham, Richard wrote:
> >I run Oracle/RMAN backups to a disk storage unit and duplicate these to
> >tapes.
> >I later expire the disk copies and verify availabily of the tape copy.
An
> >issue I have discovered is that these duplicate tapes do not have a time
> >assigned date...<snip>
>
> you're sure you're not accidentally expiring both copies when you
> expire the on-disk copy of the image?  (what is the syntax of the
> bpexpdate command you use to carry out this expiration?)
>
> it would be interesting to see what the "vmquery -m <mediaID>" and
> "bpimmedia -mediaid <mediaID>" commands say about one of these
> duplicate tapes...
>
> rob
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