[Veritas-bu] Removing media expiration dates
2004-05-21 14:50:58
Subject: |
[Veritas-bu] Removing media expiration dates |
From: |
justin.lloyd AT mci DOT com (Justin C. Lloyd) |
Date: |
Fri, 21 May 2004 14:50:58 -0400 |
That did it. I kept confusing the two expiration dates. Thanks!
Justin
Bedros Geyoghlian wrote:
> At 10:53 AM 5/21/2004, Justin C. Lloyd wrote:
>
>> I have some tapes that I must have inadvertantly set an expiration
>> date on, and I would like to remove them. In the Media screen of the
>> Admin Console, if I highlight a tape and select 'Change', the dialog
>> box shows an expiration date of about 1 year from now. However, in
>> bpmedialist the expiration date is INFINITY, as I had tested changing
>> that tape with 'bpexpdate -m MEDIA_ID -d infinity'.
>>
>> So how do I remove the tape expiration dates that show in the Admin
>> Console? I know how to fix the image expiration dates using bpexpdate.
>
>
> You're referring to two different expiration dates:
>
> The Expiration Date on the "Change Volume Properties" screen is the
> VOLUME expiration. That date indicates the date/time after which you
> can no longer write to the tape (i.e. the tape has been overwritten so
> often that you can't rely on the tape anymore).
>
> The bpmedialist expiration date is referring to IMAGE expiration. When
> using bpexpdate, you're telling NetBackup all the images on the volume
> will expire and thus, when the tape will de-assigned (i.e. recyclable).
>
> The change the former, go back to the "Change Volume Properties" for all
> the volumes and change the "Expiration Date" to "Never". You can also
> use vmchange.
>
> - Bedros
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bedros R. Geyoghlian mailto:bedros AT raiderfans DOT com
>
> "Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run."
> - Simon Wilder (Joe Pesci) in "With Honors"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
--
Justin C. Lloyd
Unix System Administrator
MCI System Technology Solutions
Office 703.886.3219 Vnet 806.3219
|
|
|