Hi James,

I opened a case with Symantec on this exact issue.

1. we bpduplicate data from tape1 (old) to tape2 (lto-4)
2. we expire the old tape, tape2 is promoted to the primary copy.

That is how it should work.

Justin.

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, James Osbourn wrote:

> I am running a script to duplicate a bunch of media and check for the
> tape requirements and expipre the tape once the duplication has completed.
>
> We are writing copy 2 to a DSSU and then destaging from there tp copy 3
> on tape.  The problem is that occassionally of the on disk image is
> expired before the original image then copy 1 on the source tape get
> made the primary again.
>
> I can change copy3 to be primary and then expire the source tape; or I
> could just expire the source tape with bpexpdate -m.  I know that if I
> expire an image I can specify a copy number and once expired the other
> copy will be promoted to primary.  Does any one know if the same applies
> when using -m <tape> for expiration?
>
> Regards
>
> James
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