I've tried the:  vmquery -deassignbyid XXXXXX n 0

I'm still getting the same error message.  It picks up the tape, sees there is 
catalog information on the tape, then freezes it.

Thanks,

Thomas Gravizi
Systems Administrator
STERIS Corporation - Mentor, OH
thomas_gravizi AT steris DOT com
440.392.7630 - Tel
440.350.7078 - Fax



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Mickeler [mailto:steve AT neptune DOT ca]
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 2:05 PM
To: Gravizi, Thomas
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Expiring catalog tapes?



The answer is here:

http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/120.html




On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Gravizi, Thomas wrote:

>
> Greetings all,
>
> We have some old backup tapes that were once used for the catalog backup
> and would like to reuse them.  There are no other active images on the
> tapes, but when I try to use them, NBU says "FREEZING media id XXXXXX,
> it contains NetBackup database data and cannot be used for backups".
>
> I've tried using the command:  bpexpdate -ev XXXXXX -d 0, but it still
> says the same message.  Any other commands out there that could expire
> the catalog tapes so that they could be used for other backups?  Thanks
> in advance!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Gravizi
> Systems Administrator
> STERIS Corporation - Mentor, OH
> thomas_gravizi AT steris DOT com
> 440.392.7630 - Tel
> 440.350.7078 - Fax
>
>
>



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