06-08-2016 03:20 AM
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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06-08-2016 03:44 AM
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>
06-08-2016 03:44 AM
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>
06-08-2016 05:10 AM
u mean to say media id means Barcode of that tape cassette.
06-08-2016 05:34 AM
Thank you so much StefanosM. IT worked.