Assigned means that the tape was used for a backup. Presumably, you
assigned it by running a backup to the tape. You can expire all the
backup images from the tape to manually deassign it but then all the
data that was backed up will be lost. Or you can wait until the images
expire and then the tape will be deassigned automatically by
NetBackup. I recommend reading the media manager manual if you are not
comfortable with the term assigned and what it means. It will greatly
help your understanding of how to use NetBackup. In the meantime, if
you wish to deassign the tape use the bpexpdate command. You can look
up the syntax in the commands manual.

JR

On 22 Aug 2005 11:45:01 -0500, "jim" wrote:

>
>how do i UNASSIGN something?!?!? everything i want to do... label, erase,
>etc... i CANT do it because it says the volume is "assigned". well who the
>hell assigned it? how do i unassign it? and what does assigned mean?!?!?!