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John_Rowat's avatar
John_Rowat
Level 2
12 years ago

Expiring "infinite" tapes that are assigned to another server.

For reasons that are too long to get into, there are a number of old (like, 2009, 2010) tapes that were previously given "infinite" expiry times that we'd like to re-use, and I can't find the right c...
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mph999's avatar
mph999
Level 6
12 years ago

Simply ...

If this command does not 'expire' the tapes ...

bpexpdate -d 0 -m <media id>

Log a call ...

There is not much I can think of that will stop that command working that is fixable without support.

(sometimes you need the -h <host> option if the bpexpdate command is not run on the same server that last wrote to the media, but, as teher is no host listed in the EMM record for this tape then I can't see this helping much).

Unless anyone comes up with some bright ideas, support will just create an SQL script to splat these tapes from the DB, will take a bit of time as SQL scripts have to go via backline > engineering.

Interestingly, when I run bptm -makedbentry on a tape with a correct EMM entry I get a message saying the  entry already exists, you don't, you just get an error so this is another good pointer that the DB entry is damaged.

Martin