clear/reset return date of scratch tapes from Iron Mountain vault

[Genericus]

I started a vault, and realized I had an issue, so I killed the vault.

I ran an inventory to ensure NetBackup knew what tapes were where, and restarted the vault.

The initial vault had set a "Return Date" value in the returning scratch tapes, and the vault picking list from the second run did not include those tapes. I am pretty sure these tapes will never come back.

I have 49 tapes with 9:06 time and 2 with 9:13, those two were the ones on the vault picking list.

How do I reset or clear out that "Return Date" value so tomorrow vault will recall those tapes? 

[Amol_Nair · Accepted solution]

vltoffsitemedia is the command that you are looking for.. It has a switch -change which allows you to change or clear these fields..

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/15263389-130536298-0/v14673200-130536298

Example 3 should give you a brief idea on clearing the fields

[Genericus]

for i in EACH MEDIA NEEDED TO CHANGE

do

echo $i

vltoffsitemedia -change -m $i -vltreturn 0

done

Worked like a champ, adding to my list of cool commands.

Edited - removing too much information prevents it from coming back! 

-vltname "" -vltsession 0 -vltslot 0 -vltsent 0 -vltreturn 0