Good question!

vmquery date - date that TAPE expires  (i.e. should be thrown away)
bpmedialist - date the DATA on the tape expires (i.e. can be overwritten)

This has been discussed often, but I don't believe in using the vmquery 
date at all.  Under normal use, most modern tapes (anything since DLT) have 
pass ratings of well beyond 10,000.  You'll never hit that number.  Even if 
you did, the DATE would have nothing to do with it.

Just one man's opinion.  (Puts down the open can of worms...)

At 06:50 PM 7/9/2001 -0400, Karamchedu, Rajeev K. wrote:
>Greetings
>
>
>Thanks for your input in advance!
>
>what is the difference between the "expiration date" field
>that is displayed in the vmquery output and the expiration
>field that is displayed in the "bpmedialist" output ?
>
>Also, if my vmquery list is longer than the bpmedialist
>list, does this mean that I have some tapes in my volmgr
>that either belong to scratch pool or that can be deassigned
>and reused ?
>
>Regards
>
>Rajeev
>
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