Actually I stumbled across the gui expire function and used that.  All
the info on the gui was correct, pointing to the correct tape and copy
etc.. After a little more poking around, I see that even after it said
that it was expired after refreshing the gui the it did change the
expire date and everything else is still there.  I then tried to change
the volume pool back to scratch using the gui again with the Media
Managers change function and it gave the following:
"Could not change media ID 001323: cannot change volume pool for
assigned volume (91)
Any suggestions how to get this tape back to the scratch volume pool?

Wayne BeDour
IT Unix System Administrator
PH: 313-240-3374  FAX: 313-240-3065
Internet:  wbedour AT lear DOT com
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Markham [mailto:dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:40 AM
To: BeDour, Wayne
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate question

Its not really the correct option as you will now need to change the
copy number to 3 when you want to do a restore and not to copy number 2.

The reason i think this has happened is as the message suggests it
already has 2 copies as you did a successfully duplication. Did you use
the -copy flag on the bpexpdate command to expire your copy?#

Dave

BeDour, Wayne wrote:
>
> Just to answer my own question. I increased the "Maximum backup
> copies" in the "Global Attributes" from the default of 2 to 3 and was
> able to rerun my bpduplcate command. I'm not sure this is the correct
> or only solution but it appears to take care of my problem. Any
> thoughts or recommendations would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Wayne BeDour
>
> IT Unix System Administrator
>
> PH: 313-240-3374 FAX: 313-240-3065
>
> Internet: wbedour AT lear DOT com
>
>
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>
> *From:* veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] *On Behalf Of
> *BeDour, Wayne
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:43 AM
> *To:* veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate question
>
> Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP
> unix with some Sun and Windows backups. I set up duplication and
> duplicated one of my tapes to the wrong volume pool and now want to
> correct it. I have created the correct volume pool for my duplicate,
> changed the policy to use that volume pool and expired the dup copy I
> created. When I try to duplicate the tape again it is giving me the
> following messages:
>
> # bpduplicate -id 000773 -dstunit SureStore20_700_ys -dp NB_duplicates
> -s 01/01/2004
>
> Duplicate started Wed Mar 22 2006 08:22:04
>
> Activity monitor job id = 173659
>
> INF - Skipping backup id xxxxxx_1142944372, it already has 2 copies.
>
> INF - Skipping backup id xxxxxx_1142335945, it already has 2 copies.
>
> INF - Skipping backup id xxxxxx_1141736210, it already has 2 copies.
>
> ........
>
> ........
>
> ........
>
> INF - found no images or media matching the selection criteria
>
> #
>
> What needs to be done so NBU doesn't think it still has 2 copies?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Wayne BeDour
>
> IT Unix System Administrator
>
> PH: 313-240-3374 FAX: 313-240-3065
>
> Internet: wbedour AT lear DOT com
>
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