Wayne,

I have rarely used the vmchange -exp command.

The only thing that comes to mind is if you have a defective tape.  The
backups fail using that tape.  NetBackup can not freeze the tape.  You
can run the vmchange -exp to expire the tape so NetBackup will not try
to use it again.


Regards,

Arthur Morgan
Backup Administrator
Texas Instruments
arthur.morgan AT ti DOT com 


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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpexpdate

Morgan, Arthur wrote, in part, on 7/1/2005 12:59 PM:

> Bpexpdate -m XXXXX -d 0 will expire the images on the tape.
>
> Vmchange -exp <date> -m XXXXXX will expire the tape itself and not the

> images.
>

Why might one wish to do the latter?

cheers, wayne


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