These messages indicate that the media has an expiration date set. This has
nothing to do with images. You can run:

vmchange -exp 0 -m <mediaid>

or change it through the gui. Of course, if you really don't want to use
those tapes any more than get rid of them.

George

On Thu, 8 May 2003, François-Xavier Peretmere wrote:

> > From: Marvin Blackburn [mailto:mblackburn AT glenraven DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 3:42 PM
>
> > I run nbu 3.4.3.  We get the following types of messages for the same
> > media id's every night:
> >
> > Apr 28 02:26:27 enttape vmd[1479]: media ID DPQ041 has expired
> > Apr 28 10:47:15 enttape vmd[1479]: media ID DPQ041 has expired
> > Apr 28 17:01:11 enttape vmd[1479]: media ID DPQ096 has expired
> > Apr 28 17:01:15 enttape vmd[1479]: media ID DPQ096 has expired
> > Apr 28 23:01:15 enttape vmd[1479]: media ID DPQ041 has expired
>
>  Can be affirmative w/o looking more deeper in your configuration but
> a possible scenario would be some fragments still living on the tape,
> so tape was still assigned - supposing you're doing MPX backups.
>
>  Amicalement.
>
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