No - it was just Dave talldoode statement about the way command were
recommended to expire tapes. My question was about images so maybe
bpexpdate will leave the catalog corrupted when it expires the tape.

Dave said
"oh, just do this to expire that pesky tape" makes me cringe.

Thanks
Carl Mathews
University of Arkansas
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 23:54:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com>



That should do it.  Is there something that you're worried about?

--
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com

> We are given the bpexpdate command to expire images.
> Many time that command has be recommended by the list.
> How should we expire images and keep the catalogs in sync?
> Does it take more then bpexpdate?

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>From talldoode at cox.net  Thu May 10 14:17:55 2007
From: talldoode at cox.net (Dave)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:17:55 -0700
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0
        MP4

Read all of the replies and had to laugh. 90% of the problems that came
with
6.0 were because people didn't do their upgrades correctly and didn't RTFM
before pulling the trigger. They can only blame themselves, but hey, much
easier to blame the software instead of going to your boss and telling him
what you did wrong.



The upgrade from 5.x to 6.0 is very straightforward provided you read and
understand what you are doing. The main/critical/important thing is to
make sure your catalog is completely, 100% clean before you upgrade so the
new EMM database will properly populate. This means you are running the
NBCC utility, sending the data to Symantec Support, doing what they tell
you to do, running NBCC again, sending output to Support etc (or having
Consulting come help you). You may have to go back to support a number of
times to get this done but it will be worth it. The extensive use of
command line functionality without knowing what you are doing is the main
reason for the catalogs being out of sync for what it's worth. Some of the
things I read on this list about "oh, just do this to expire that pesky
tape" makes me cringe.