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
* 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 always
By the way, you could use bpexpdate -m mediaID -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:
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
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By the way, you could use bpexpdate -m mediaID -d 0 if you want to
force netbackup to move the tapes into SCRATCH, assuming that has
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By the way, you could use bpexpdate -m mediaID -d 0 if you want to force
netbackup to move the tapes into SCRATCH
them going back to scratch.
Thanks,
Kris
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