On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:

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> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Jimenez, Daniel wrote:
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>> Hey guys
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>> I have a tape that no longer has valid images but shows up as a daily
>> tape with an assigned date in Netbackup. I attempted to bpexpdate the
>> tape but it comes back with "requested media id was not found in NB
>> media database and/or MM volume database". I attempted to change the
>> volume pool but it comes back with "change pool of xxxxxx failed: cannot
>> change volume pool for assigned volumes (91)". There is a command that I
>> found online "bpexpdate -ev <medai id> -d 0 -force -host <media server>"
>> and would like to know if this command would work on Netbackup 5.1 MP?
>> Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks.
>> 
>> Daniel Jimenez
>> Data Protection Team
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> Try  bpexpdate -deassignempty - note though this should only be used as a 
> last resort as it can make the images/catalog out of sync for the images on 
> that tape ID.
>
> Justin.
>

Correct, vmquery -deassignbyid is what you want :)

Check the manual for the syntax.

Justin.
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