Norita,

You don't expire tapes. You expire data that is on the tapes.
It is entirely possible that no tape will ever be emptied by the
expiration process.
The way to  make empty tapes is to perform reclamation of your storage
pools, that typically consolidates data from several half-empty tapes
to one or more empty tapes.

1/2 tape + 1/2 tape + 1 empty = 1 empty + 1 empty + 1 full.

Please refer to the relevant topics in  the  Admin guide regarding
expiration and reclamation processes.

On 6/7/07, Norita binti Hassan <ita AT pos.com DOT my> wrote:

Since 2004 till now, we have used more than 500 tapes. And the expire date
is only 30 days, But the problem is, most of the tapes is not expired. Using
'expire inventory' is not work . Can I delete all those unwanted tapes that
has last written date < 2005 as I do not need it anymore. Or is there any
other way so that I can reuse all those tape.



Thanks



NORITA BINTI HASAN

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