Automate erasing tapes in the Scratch pool

[marconimis]

How do I automate the deletion of expired tapes from the scratch pool?
I always have to go and perform a manual quick erase of expired tapes in order to allow the HP StoreOnce 6600 not to fill up.

I trust your experience!

Thank you

[Nicolai]

You are using the StorOnce 6600 as VTL - right ?

Your issues is likely described here:

How to expire images on VTL tape

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100000702

And the topic has been up before:

https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/VTL-tapes-are-not-expired-on-data-domain/td-p/845885

In this thread one suggestion is to use bplabel to re-initialize the tapes.

[melmel_bk]

After selecting the media, select Label or Quick Eraser.