> We kept a set of the HSM tape volumes on the shelf "just in case", but
> their time has passed and we want to recycle them. They show up in the
> Media Manager display and I try to delete them as the first step towards
> recycling, but I can't because they are "assigned". So them I try to
> deassign them with the shell command
> 
>       bpexpdate  -d 0  -ev <barcode>
> 
> But I get a message that says
> 
>       requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM
> volume database
>
> Yet they DO show up in the MM display.

Right.  In this case it's the "or".  They're not "netbackup" tapes, so
they're not in the NB media database, so they can't be "expired" (which
is a netbackup concept).  

> I'm thinking that I can't use
> bpexpdate to deassign them because they have a status value of "0x2", which
> indicates that they are "Storage Migrator" (aka HSM) volumes. The Media
> Manager manual indicates that such volumes must be deassigned by the
> Storage Migrator application. Ugh - we removed the application from the
> server!

Then you can use vmquery -deassignbyid to deassign them.


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