Archive for February, 2007

Netbackup – How do I expire, delete tapes from the database?

February 20, 2007 in Netbackup, Solaris, Tape Library
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First you need to make sure that there are no valid images on the tape that you want.
NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpimmedia -mediaid -L
If there are no images that you need, expire the tape:
NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpexpdate -m -d 0 -host -force
This expires the images in the media database which resides specifically on the media server.
Verify that [...]