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
Links for February 19, 2009:
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Use NetBackup’s bpexpdate. For example, to set tape 001038 to never expire (actually, this sets it to expire sometime in 2038, but close enough for those of us living in 2009):
bpexpdate -m 001038 -d infinity
To expire 001038 immediately:
bpexpdate -m 001038 -d 0