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I have tapes whose physical expiration date is shorter than I'd like. How do I change that date?

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The date to which we are referring is the date that you see in vmquery, and is the date that the volume itself should be expired, and no longer used. This is not related to the expiration date of the images on the tape. vmchange -M master -h volhost -exp 0 -m mediaid The command above will tell media manager that the tape should never expire. vmchange -M master -h volhost -exp mm/dd/yy -m mediaid This will set it to expire on a specific date.