Still, all you should have to do is "bpexpdate" the tape number and the
tape should be reusable.

deassignbyid is a bit of a big hammer to use casually.  I'd do:

bpexpdate -d 0 -m <tapenum> -force
..then a...
bpexpdate -deassignempty -m <tapenum> -force
..this'll make the tape available sooner..

It's cleaner and you're not stomping about in the database with big
boots.

By the way, bpexpdate has a "-force" option that expires the tape
without asking confirmation - no need to echo "y" into it.

Loaded every tape, then requested a new one? I've seen this on
write-protected tapes and on physical drive errors.  If it loads the
tape, finds it unusable for some reason, it'll dump it and request a new
one.  Did some enthusiastic tape monkey write-protect all your tapes?

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Cleverley
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:08 AM
To: Paul Keating
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 96 media allocation issues

Paul,

As mentioned, I only inherited the environment :-)  I was told that the 
reason this was being done was they wanted to have the tapes and 
sessions protected until they decided to explicitly unprotect them.  I 
think it stemmed more from paranoia and lack of understanding from the 
business.  It is a bit of a make work thing. 

Jeff

Paul Keating wrote:
> Why would you not set your retentions correctly (ie, set to expire
when
> you want them to) then have Iron Mountain automatically return the
tapes
> when the expiration date rolls 'round?
>
> That way your tapes come back to you as Scratch, with no clean up work
> to do afterward.
>
> Sounds like a make work project. 
>
> Paul
>
>   

-- 

Jeff Cleverley
Unix Systems Administrator
Avago Technologies
4380 Ziegler Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611
jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com


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