Run the following command for each one of the tapes:

        bpexpdate -ev media_id  -d 0


Sonny Chee
Winstar Telecommunications

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Edward Carr
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:45 PM
To: Veritas Mailing List
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Expiring tapes ...


Oh Masterfull Ones ...

I ran a backup last night only to find today the the slice where my
netbackup db resides was at 100% ...  Thus when trying to do a restore today
it cannot find any of the files that I backed up last night.  Now I have
resolved the space issue, but I would like to blow away the data on the four
tapes.  How do I force the expiration of tapes?  I tried in Media Management
to expire the tapes, but that does not seem to work.  Any hints on how to
return the four tapes to the scratch pool?

System Info:
        Solaris 2.6 on an UE4500 connected via SAN to a StorageTek L700 with 6 
9840
Fiber drives.  Running NBU 3.2GA ...


Thanks in Advance

Ted Carr

"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."