Yeah, bpexpdate is the recommended way to do what you want.

I believe the talldoode comment was about the dreaded vmquery
-deassignbyid command, which can definitely shoot you in the foot. In
recent versions, the command is still there, but it complains if you use
it.

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W. Curtis Preston
Author of O'Reilly's Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS
VP Data Protection
GlassHouse Technologies


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> 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.

bpexpdate expires images.  When you give a volume, it expires all copies
of images on that volume.  

When all images on a volume expire, the volume can be returned as
scratch.

A recommended command that causes catalog corruption would be a bad
idea.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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