Thanks for the tips. 
Even a catalog of almost 15,000 images shouldn't take a half hour per tape?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Kingery" <larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com>
To: <jwood AT apa.qwest DOT net>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:38 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] I need to expire a bunch of tapes quickly


> I'm not sure why you're using vmquery to try to expire media.
> 
> Changing the expiration of the images on a piece of media is done via
> bpexpdate.  Using vmquery to clear the assigned attribute of an
> unexpired tape will probably lead to data loss around the time it
> expires, hence the big warning message produced by vmquery.
> 
> If you're trying to find an approach that's faster than bpexpdate,
> using vmquery is NOT it.  Unless your catalog is quite large, if it
> takes a half hour to expire a tape you've probably got a media server
> which is no longer available but is still referenced somewhere in NBU.
> I'd check the admin log (master), maybe bptm (media and server where
> running bpexpdate), and 'netstat -an | grep SYN' (master and server
> where running bpexpdate).
> 
> HTH,
> L
> -- 
> Larry Kingery 
> On a clear disk you can seek forever
>