bplabel always works.....

~JK

"Gravizi, Thomas" wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> 
> [-] Steve Mickeler [ steve AT neptune DOT ca ]
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