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Thawing Frozen Tapes

23-Feb-09

Thawing frozen tapes from the command line in NetBackup. NBU provides a command-line utility to thaw frozen tapes, bpmedia. As an example, to thaw tape A00037 on media server back01, run the following command from C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd : bpmedia -unfreeze -m A00037 -h back01