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Deleting a tape data

sudhakarkumar
Level 4

Hi I have some Tapes in my tape library in which I am taking Backup, these tapes have some fixed retention period. Now I want to Expiry those images available on the tapes manually. 

Anyone please suggest a way to erase al the data on the tapes.

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StefanosM
Level 6
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If you want to expire the backups and reuse the tape immediately you have to run the following command from the command line:

bpexpdate -d 0 -m <mediaid>

 

 

 

 

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StefanosM
Level 6
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If you want to expire the backups and reuse the tape immediately you have to run the following command from the command line:

bpexpdate -d 0 -m <mediaid>

 

 

 

 

sudhakarkumar
Level 4

u mean to say media id means Barcode of that tape cassette.

sudhakarkumar
Level 4

Thank you so much StefanosM. IT worked.