clear/reset return date of scratch tapes from Iron Mountain vault
I started a vault, and realized I had an issue, so I killed the vault.
I ran an inventory to ensure NetBackup knew what tapes were where, and restarted the vault.
The initial vault had set a "Return Date" value in the returning scratch tapes, and the vault picking list from the second run did not include those tapes. I am pretty sure these tapes will never come back.
I have 49 tapes with 9:06 time and 2 with 9:13, those two were the ones on the vault picking list.
How do I reset or clear out that "Return Date" value so tomorrow vault will recall those tapes?
- vltoffsitemedia is the command that you are looking for.. It has a switch -change which allows you to change or clear these fields..
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/15263389-130536298-0/v14673200-130536298
Example 3 should give you a brief idea on clearing the fields
