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Level 4

9 years ago

How to expire vault tape.

Hi all,

I want to expire vault tape. I have tryed to use the commands:

bpexpdate -m 0019L6 -d 0

bpexpdate -m 0019L6 -d 0 - force

I receive same message: no images were successfully processed

After, I had try to deassign tape without success:

/bpexpdate -deassignempty -m 0019L6

Message received: No media matching criteria were found to be deassigned. no entity was found.

Could you help me for resolve it?

Thanks!

Regards,

Daniele

RiaanBadenhorst
9 years ago
FIrstly, are there any images on that tape. Secondly, are you running the CMD as adminstrator?

Use bpimmedia to see what is listed as being on the media.

RiaanBadenhorst
Level 6
9 years ago
FIrstly, are there any images on that tape. Secondly, are you running the CMD as adminstrator?

Use bpimmedia to see what is listed as being on the media.
Cappino
Level 4
9 years ago
Hello Riaan,

In this tape now not there images, i have expired it from catalog options in the GUI.

I have used dpimmedia, the result is:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimmedia -mediaid 0019L6
IMAGE ns-rdbms02.cogens.local 9 ns-rdbms02.cogens.local_1428288064 P_AWP_DBFULL 15 Default-Application-Backup 2 1 14 2147483647 0 0 0 0
FRAG 3 2 96381984 0 2 20 1 0019L6 media-srvrm-01.cogetech.it 65536 2 1428354007 2 0 *NULL* 2147483647 0 10 1 *NULL* 0

Thank you!
Will_Restore
Level 6
9 years ago
Add this to your bpexpdate command line -host media-srvrm-01.cogetech.it
Marianne
Level 6
9 years ago
No response since 23 Dec....

Have you been able to recycle this tape as yet?

If not, please show us output of
nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid 0019L6.

bpimmedia seemed to list one image still on this tape.

As a matter of interest - are you using SLPs in your environment?