First, find the pool number and status by running a vmquery against the
media:

vmquery -m <media ID>

Note the status and volume pool from this output.

Then you will need to run vmquery with the special -deassignbyid option:

vmquery   -deassignbyid <media_id> <pool_number> <status>

Here is an example from the man page:

      The following command deassigns volume A23456, which is in pool 1
      (NetBackup), with a status of 0:

      vmquery -deassignbyid A23456 1 0

You will then probably need to run bplabel so regular backups can be
written to this tape.   Remember to use the -p <pool> option if the media
ID is not in the netbackup pool.


I think the idea is to make it real touch to accidently write over a db
backup.

-Jon

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Arterburn, Michael wrote:

> I have many tapes in my NetBackup Database pool that I would like to
> scratch, but I am unable to figure out how.  I have attempted to use bplabel
> but I get the error: "Request terminated because of volume pool mismatch"
> 
> I have also tried to just change the pool to Scratch, but it will also not
> let me.
> 
> These tapes are no longer needed and I would like to put them into use
> again.
> 
> Thanks for any help you are able to give,
> 
>       Michael Arterburn
>       Arvin Meritor <<http://www.arvinmeritor.com>>
>       Michael.Arterburn AT ArvinMeritor DOT com
>       Phone: 812.379.3315
>       Cell: 812.390.6508
>       Pager: 812.370.1343
> 
>       From my PC... through the LAN...  over the data cables... to the
> ISP... out of the proxies... nothing but net!
> 
> :wq!
> 
>