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smith_jones's avatar
smith_jones
Level 6
9 years ago

Expiring tapes.

Hello All, Can somebody please suggest how to expire multiple tapes at once. I am tired of expiring them one by one from commandline, when required.   Thanks.
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Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Will_Restore's avatar
    Will_Restore
    9 years ago

    A simple script

    • for /f %%i in (c:\temp\medialist) do bpexpdate -d 0 -m %%i

    Test it and make sure it works as expected, then append -force to the script to eliminate "do you really want to do this?" prompt.

    Hope your next thread is not "I accidentally expired a bunch of tapes..." surprise

cbsi_nbu_team's avatar
cbsi_nbu_team
Level 3
9 years ago

I would do a simple script. Lets say you have a list of medias to expire in a file /tmp/foo

# for mid in `cat /tmp/foo`; do  echo working on $mid; bpexpdate -m $mid -recalculate -ret 0 -force; done

Disclaimer: the above is just an example, don't copy and paste other ppl's script without understanding fully what it does.