cajunspirit
7 years agoLevel 3
Netbackup 7.7.3 manually expired tapes not being pulled
Good day all, We recently had expired tapes in the magazine and wanted to manually expire them so that they will be pulled for duplications. I used the bpexpdate command and successfully expired ...
- 7 years ago
bpexpdate -d 0 -m <media-id>
is the correct command.If the Policy schedule retention levels are configured according to business needs, you should never need to manually expire tapes.
Unexpired tapes/images need to be kept to restore from until they naturally expire.Insufficient media in the environment should never be a reason for manually expiring tapes.