Freezing applies only to writing to the tape.

To keep it from being read, duplicate all of the images off of it and
change the primary copy of said images to copy 2.  Of course, that
means one more read off the tape.

Chris Heinz writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a tape that's been having problems so I froze it (bpmedia -freeze)
> so that a certain oracle backup would not use the tape anymore.  Afterwards,
> I successfully ran the full backup, which no longer requested the "bad"
> tape.  However, when I trie to restore the db, it still asked for the
> bad tape.  Is there a reason for this and how do I make the tape completely
> unavailable (aside from expiring it, which I don't want to do yet) so
> that there would no longer be any  reference to it from any backup/restore.
>  I'm running 3.4.
> 
> TIA!
> Chris
> 
> 
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