If you know the image ID, use bpexpdate from the command line.

If you do it in the gui, it will be midnight before it actually goes away. 



Bobby Williams
2205 Peterson Drive
Chattanooga, Tennessee  37421
423-296-8200

-----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 Iain Miller
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 5:18 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] last image expiration date on a tape

Guys,

I have inherited a netbackup server (4.5) running on Solaris 8.  There is no
library attached only a single tape drive - we use an on site person to
switch tapes every day.

My main question is - How do I get images that have expired on the media
overwritable??

I have replaced all the tapes in the cycle and I have now filled my first
piece of media - even though the images have expired, they are still on the
tape and I can't overwrite them.  We use the same tapes on a weekly basis,
so there are newer images on the tape that haven't expired yet.  I guess
that they could be manually expired, but is there a neater way to do this??

I had thought about reducing the retention period down to 6 days (so that
when  the tape is inserted after a week, the images will expire and I should
be able to overwrite them).  Anybody have any thoughts / feelings about how
best to achieve what I am looking for.

As usual, thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Regards,

Iain.

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