It does not look like this tape has expired. The expiration date is 3/10/2009. 
Check the retention from your policies (backup classes in 3.4). It looks like 4 
month retention to me. The expiration date is from the last image put on the 
tape.

You can run bpexpdate to command to force expire the tape, even though I don't 
recommend you do it. 
# bpexpdate -ev "mediaid" -force -d 0 -host "media server"



Koping Wang | System/Backupk Administrator |

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:14:18 -0500
From: naymyotun <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Subject: [Veritas-bu]  Backup media FULL message
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Message-ID: <1230257658.m2f.294988 AT www.backupcentral DOT com>


Hi,
   I am running the netbackup 3.4 server for long time. A few days ago, I 
noticed i was getting error message 96 when running backup. Then i checked most 
of the media are status "FULL" message. 

id              rl      images       allocated            last updated          
  density  kbytes restores
                         vimages    expiration           last read         
<------- STATUS ------->
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

BKP09     5        5           10/28/2008 23:28  12/07/2008 09:44    hcart  
961478144       0
                         14          03/10/2009 09:44        N/A                
     FULL

   In fact , the rentention period has already over, but never ovewritten and 
show error message status "96" whenever run the backup. 
   Pls. advise.

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