bpexpdate deletes the copy of the images that are on the specified tape 
(among other things) from the catalog.  There is no need to perform 
other steps if you are merely discarding the image copies from a tape.  
As others have written, the expired tape becomes "available" or "expired 
and frozen".  If you no longer want NetBackup to "see" the tape, you 
delete it (vmdelete or the Admin Console), probably after ejecting it 
from your robot.

"I then do into the GUI and delete the images" is only necessary when 
you wish to discard other copies of the images that are/were on the tape.

In case it's not clear, none of the operations were discussing cause a 
tape to be mounted.

Hope this helps, wayne

Keith W wrote, in part,  on 8/24/2006 12:17 PM:
> Here is what I do, always seems to work for me.
>
> Expire the image, where A00003 is the volume name.
> ./bpexpdate -ev A00003 -d 0
>
> I then go into the GUI and delete the images, I do this because I am not
> sure how to do that part command line.
>