did those tapes have a jobs that failed to complete? I have seen this
in cases where jobs span multiple tapes and  fail to complete. Even
though bbimbedia will list no images on these tapes, they still don't
expire. you have to expire then forcefully to reclaim them.
-G

On 6/14/05, prasad.vasireddy AT criticalpath DOT net
<prasad.vasireddy AT criticalpath DOT net> wrote:
> Hi Rockey...
> 
>   Thanks for the response. I am using Veritas Netback 5.0 on solaris.
> 
>    We are using all the tapes to start from the scratch pool... It didnt 
> expired
> the images on the tapes even though expiration date is few days past.
> 
> Thanks
> Prasad
> 
> 
> Two things here:
> 
> 1st if the tape did not start in the scratch pool it may not
> automatically return to scratch, but may rather return to the pool it
> was created in.
> 
> 2nd Media cleanup is done at midnight when bpsched runs, so a tape whose
> images expired today may not be available until after midnight.
> 
> These actions have changed between NBU versions, and not knowing what
> version you're using I cannot be more specific; however, I hope this
> helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rockey J. Reed
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> prasad.vasireddy AT criticalpath DOT net
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:15 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] last image expiration date on a tape
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know the command to find the last image to be expired on
> the
> tape.
>  I was using
>   bpimmedia -mediaid < > -L
>   to find the images on the tape. It gives all the images on the tape.
> I
>  would like to know just the date of expiration of last image, so that i
> 
> can reuse the tape.
> 
>   when i check couple of tapes even though all the image expiration
> dates
> are  over, still it is not moving the tapes back to scratch volume pool,
> 
> is
>  there any dependeny on them ???
> 
>  and command to find the tapes which are vaulted on today ???
> 
>   Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestions.
> 
> 
>  Prasad
> 
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