> From: John F. McLaughlin [mailto:john.f.mclaughlin AT lmco DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday 04 December, 2001 13:45

...
>   This backup was kicked off manually.  The problem is that four
> of the tapes  assigned and written to  were deassigned  during the
> backup.  This has happened twice.   Can anybody shed any
> light on this.

12/03/01 19:42:18 netback -  media id CSE370 removed from media manager
                  database (manual deassign)

 For me (can't check any further right now), "manual deassign" means
a "bpexpdate -d 0" command has been issued.

 Amicalement, fx.

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