That did it.  I kept confusing the two expiration dates.  Thanks!

Justin


Bedros Geyoghlian wrote:

> At 10:53 AM 5/21/2004, Justin C. Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> I have some tapes that I must have inadvertantly set an expiration 
>> date on, and I would like to remove them.  In the Media screen of the 
>> Admin Console, if I highlight a tape and select 'Change', the dialog 
>> box shows an expiration date of about 1 year from now.  However, in 
>> bpmedialist the expiration date is INFINITY, as I had tested changing 
>> that tape with 'bpexpdate -m MEDIA_ID -d infinity'.
>>
>> So how do I remove the tape expiration dates that show in the Admin 
>> Console?  I know how to fix the image expiration dates using bpexpdate.
> 
> 
> You're referring to two different expiration dates:
> 
> The Expiration Date on the "Change Volume Properties" screen is the 
> VOLUME expiration.  That date indicates the date/time after which you 
> can no longer write to the tape (i.e. the tape has been overwritten so 
> often that you can't rely on the tape anymore).
> 
> The bpmedialist expiration date is referring to IMAGE expiration.  When 
> using bpexpdate, you're telling NetBackup all the images on the volume 
> will expire and thus, when the tape will de-assigned (i.e. recyclable).
> 
> The change the former, go back to the "Change Volume Properties" for all 
> the volumes and change the "Expiration Date" to "Never".  You can also 
> use vmchange.
> 
> - Bedros
> 
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Justin C. Lloyd
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