These are different dates that you think, I suspect.  

Vmquery's "expiration date" is the date that the tape media itself expires,
ie: the tape becomes too old to use further).  Some companies make the
assumption that any tape more than 18 months old is suspect to failure so
they refuse to use the tape past that time. This is media expiration time.
Netbackup will refuse to use a tape past it's media expiration date.

bpmedialist draws its info from the Image DB and prints the date that the
last image on that tape is due to expire.  This is the date that the tape is
marked empty, is deassigned, and is reusable for new backups.

Unfortunately, two different "expiration dates" that are not well
differentiated in the command set.

-M

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De: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]Em nome de Parnell, Bill
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2005 05:52
Para: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Assunto: [Veritas-bu] Query regarding the vmquery command


Hi all,
Can someone tell me why when I execute the following command I do not get
any information in the expiration datetime column?

vmquery -a -w

I can get expiration dates from the bpmedialist command and can parse the
output to associate the exp dates to the media id's I would just like to
know why it is not listed in the vmquery command.  All the entries are
coming back as 00/00/0000 00:00  the rest of the results are fine as far as
I can tell.

Best Regards,
Bill.
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