Ok. It looks like I can't expire the job because it's just not there. However, 
there's this report generated by the available_media script that still claims 
that the tape is full (if that job wasn't there anymore it wouldn't be full).

Excerpt:

[root@life admincmd]# available_media
media   media   robot   robot   robot   side/   ret    size     status
 ID     type    type      #     slot    face    level  KBytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

...

CHEM02  DLT      NONE     -       -      -       24     98482912        ACTIVE
CHEM01  DLT      TLD      0       4      -       24     142478432       FULL


The CHEM01 tape is the one with the bad image on. Is the available_media 
script broken???

Thanks to all who replied. Truly an helpful mailing list.

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:04 am, Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
> "bpimmedia -mediaid <tapenum>" will show you all images on a specific tape
> - you can check if NB is tracking this image.  "bpexpdate -backupid <bkid>
> -d 0 -force" will force expire that image if you need.
>
> -M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Mathieu
> Nantel
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:38 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Expiring a single job on a single tape
>
>
> Good day NBU admins,
>
> I started this backup job which didn't fit on the tape I was trying to have
> it
> fit on (resulting in the job failing because it couldn't load another
> tape),
>
> and I would like to remove/expire the job in order to recover the lost
> space
>
> on that tape. Thing is, I can't expire the tape because there is another
> job
>
> on this tape that I cannot have expiring (it's an archive job which is
> marked
> "infinite" expiration date).
>
> Is there a way in NBU Datacenter 4.5 to expire a single job on a tape
> without
> expiring the whole tape?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Mat

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