I'm sure they're probably unassigned by now, but in the future you can use
"bpexpdate -deassignempty" to do this.  Use "bpexpdate -help" for options that
can be used with this.


- Scott



                                                                                
                                                   
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I just expired a bunch of images using bpexpdate -backupid <id> -d 0.


If I then query the tape number using bpimmedia, there is no images on the
tape.  If I use vmquery to query the tape number, though, the tape still shows
up as assigned.  I figure that there's a delay between expiring the images and
the tape being made available for reuse.  Is this the case?  Is there a way to
speed up the process?


-Mark


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