Larry,

Thanks for your reply. Yes I'm running the command on the Master/Media
Server.

I have another message from a log file also :-

    TIME          SERVER/CLIENT                      TEXT
01/30/02 13:25:30 sydbak -  media SVB105 contains obackup image...cannot
                    change
This I found from the Reports -> Problem, pull down. This must have occured
after I ran the command. Which log file could I look in to get more info on
this message? 

Does this help shed andy light I my problem? As I mentioned, I haven't yet
checked the consistency of the Media Database. I shall check it tomorrow.
Thanks.

Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Kingery [mailto:larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2002 2:42 PM
To: Andrew Wilkin
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to change expiration of a Tape


You need to run bpexpdate on the media server which wrote the tape, or
use the -h flag.  You also can't change the exp date when the tape is
in use.  Also, check the netbackup/logs/admin/log*.

Oh, and you're actually not changing the expiration date of the tape
(the time at which we will no longer write to the tape), but the
expiration of all the images on that tape (the time that we will
retain catalog information about said images, and not reuse said
tape).  It's a minor detail, but does lead to confusion sometimes when
people see 'expiration date' of media in the GUI and don't understand
what that really means.

Andrew Wilkin writes:
> Hi List,
>  
> I'm trying to manually change the expiration date of a Tape. I'm using
> the following :-
>  
> sydbak SUPER # bpexpdate -ev SVB105 -d infinity
> Are you SURE you want to change SVB105
> to NEVER expire y/n (n)? y
> unable to process request
> sydbak SUPER #
>  
> What is to possible cause of the return string "unable to process
> request"?
>  
> I haven't check for a consistent database yet.
> 
> 
> Regards 
> 
> Andrew Wilkin 
> Computer Systems Analyst 
> 
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