Hi all,

I have a handful of tapes assigned to a vault policy that I have physically
in the tape library.  I want to deassign them from the vault policy so I can
use them in regular Netbackup policies.  I tried to run the following:

bpexpdate -d 0 -m <media_id>

But it came back with the message "requested media id was not found in NB
media database and/or MM volume database".  So I searched and then found the
vmquery -deassignbyid command:

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

I understand the syntax but when I do a vmquery -m <media_id>, there is no
status listed for the handful of tapes.  Other tapes show up with a status.
The tapes are not frozen.  I can't deassign the tapes.  It comes back with
the same message:
"requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume
database".


Help.  Any advice is appreciated.
Amie