On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:37:29PM -0500, ckstehman AT pepco DOT com wrote:
> We have a number of tapes with infinite retention.

Is that retention correct?  Do you want to keep the data forever?

> Is there a way to re-use those tapes?

Yes, but it's not compatible with retaining the data on them forever.
You need to either destroy the data (bpexpdate -d 0 -m <volume), or copy
the data on there to another tape first (via bpduplicate), and then
erase the tape.

Once expired, the tape will be available for new backups.

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