I run two scripts to expire media.  First I run the bpexpdate -m ######
-d o which does work sometimes.  I found through trial and error that
this will not only reassign the media to scratch, but also wipes the
catalog of any information about that media.  If that doesn't work, I
then have to vmquery - deassignbyid - which according to Veritas is NOT
RECOMMENDED but I really have no other way to get these tapes back into
rotation.

I'll check out the retention periods on all my policies.  I'm sure this
is the case.

-Jonathan 

-----Original Message-----
From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net] 
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:05 AM
To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor); veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media Experation


By the way, you could use bpexpdate -m <mediaID> -d 0 if you want to
force netbackup to move the tapes into SCRATCH, assuming that has been
configured and the tapes have no images on there that are needed!

HTH

Simon Weaver
Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium
Tel: 02392-708598 

Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net 



-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com]
Sent: 19 December 2005 14:56
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Experation


N00b question here I know, but what sets the media expiration date?  I'm
taking over a Netbackup 5.1 environment and we seem to have a load of
issues
with media never expiring / having to vmquery -deassignbyid to get stuff
to
go back into the scratch pool.  I'd say the GUI is useless for 80% of my
media returns from offsite.

-Jonathan

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