Images on expired tapes

[cglaser]

Hi everyone,
The manager of my data center just came to me with a laundry list of tapes that are expired in various volume pools. He wants to take these tapes and simply put them into the ScratchPool. Is there a good method/specific command to seeing what is on these tapes before I go ahead and change their pools?
For instance we have a tape that was last mounted on 9/9/2001 - and the retention was only for 12 months. Can I mount this tape, see what is on it and then change the pool if I nothing of any particular value?

 

[cglaser]

just saw the FAQ for this one...did a bpimmedia -meidaid <volser> -l and got no entity found - any other ideas?

 

[PGPhantom]

If you run bpimmedia -mediaid <TapeNumber> -L and it shows not images - You are okay as the tape can safely be moved into the scratch pool. Remember though - You have to run this command on the master server.

 

[cglaser]

thanks PGPhantom...going to get a lot of tapes back. If I expire these tapes - will they automatically go into the ScratchPool - or should I change the volume pool via the command line as well?

 

[PGPhantom]

You will need to run vmchange for every tape.

If you add a SCRATCH_POOL entry to the install_path\Volmgr\vm.conf file:
SCRATCH_POOL = pool_name
Then you can just delete the tapes and re-inventory and then the new tapes will automatically go into the scratch pool.

 

[cglaser]

thanks so much for your help! consider this one closed...