One caveat to this all, don't confuse the volume expiration date, part of
the VolDB & visible with the vmquery command, with the media expiration
date. The the VolDB setting is the date that the tape is too old to continue
to be used (not set by default). The latter is the date that the last image
* Jim Peppas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-23 00:52]:
> Hi.
>
> Don't use the vmquery -deassignbyid command. It will only cause you
> headaches. When using this command, the tapes are not cleaned up correctly
> (see http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/241574.htm).
> When you want ot expire tape
Hi.
Don't use the vmquery -deassignbyid command. It will only cause you
headaches. When using this command, the tapes are not cleaned up correctly
(see http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/241574.htm).
When you want ot expire tape always use the bpexpdate command. Only if this
fails should you u
e you don't see them going back to scratch.
Thanks,
Kris
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By the way, you could use bpexpdate -m -d 0 if you want to force
netbackup to move the tap
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By the way, you could use bpexpdate -m -d 0 if you want to
force netbackup to move the tapes into SCRATCH, assumin
Hello Martin
Something to check.
In 5.1, goto the Policies and expand this.
Choose a policy , double click (if your windows) and goto the Schedules
Tab).
Double click on the schedule and there will be a section called "RETENTION"
- this should show what the retention is set for within this
By the way, you could use bpexpdate -m -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
