Ok - so I've been working on this issue recently and I'm wondering if
I'm just missing something or not.  Whenever a file or Oracle backup
fails the tapes it used remain assigned and the images do not expire
until after their retention expires.  So if a 1TB backup runs 24 hours,
then fails on the last kilobyte (for whatever reason) I am out 4 or 5
tapes.  This is most annoying!  I can't restore this data, so why retain
the images?

1 - is there an easy way to reclaim these tapes.  I know I can simply
bpexpdate -m them but its possible to have other data on them (because
of multistreaming.)

2 - If I lookup the images on the tapes, can I expire only them and will
NBU then use that space?

3 - Can Netbackup do all of this automatically for me?

I'm working on other solutions including using checkpoint restart for
file backups but in the mean time, I'm struggling with this.

TIA,

-Jonathan