DPM - Why Are Expired Tapes Still Showing As Being Off-Site Ready

[Fazza]

I've just put (what I believed) were expired tapes in to our tape library on our DPM server and they are showing up as Off-Site ready, even though they expired last month so should be identified as Expired on DPM.

 

 

As you can see the tape (which I got from our Expired tapes pile) clearly shows it was due to expire on the 28th of May 2021 and it's now the 3rd of June 2021 so why is it still being marked as Offsite-Ready rather than Expired?

 

[MYK-IT]

That tape may be (one of many used) part of a backup protection group whereby some protection points may not had expired as yet; (e.g. different retention ranges) therefore the entire set of tapes are not expired (Refer to: Tape Optimization settings, co-located protection group sets).

 

You could always use the ForceFree-Tape.ps1 command to force specified tape(s) to be available.

[Fazza]

Just checked DPM this morning and it has now decided that the tapes that expired last month are no longer Off-Site Ready and have indeed expired - just in time for Saturdays backups to off-load on to tape