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Tape Expiration Date Report

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I have been searching for a way to schedule a powershell report to list all the tapes in a Media Pool along with the date that the backup on that tape expires.

This just tells me if it is or is not expired, and works great for creating reports to return tapes from offsite:
Get-VBRTapeMedium | Where-Object { ($_.IsOverwriteProtectionPeriodOver() -eq $True


What I want is to :

Get-VBRTapeMediaPool -Name "Weekly Backups" | Get-VBRTapeMedium | ***Pseudo Code follows**** { List of Barcodes and Date of Expiration }
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Hi David,

I'm not very familiar with PowerShell, but in Veeam ONE v8 we are going to have a predefined report with the list of all locations/tapes their retention policy and expiration date. Should be exactly what you're after.

Thanks!
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If you haven't changed default mediaset's naming, then, you can try this script and see whether it helps. Thanks.
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Vitaliy S. wrote:Hi David,

I'm not very familiar with PowerShell, but in Veeam ONE v8 we are going to have a predefined report with the list of all locations/tapes their retention policy and expiration date. Should be exactly what you're after.

Thanks!
We are in V8, Where I can find this report?
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I believe Vitaliy is talking about this report. Thanks.
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Moreover, more enhancements are coming for tape reports in Veeam ONE 9; so, stay tuned! Thanks.
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I am tired to find the expiration of the tape itself, for example, if I have a tape and the media pool that protect the data for 7 days it means that this tape will expire every 7 days and will be available every 7 days but I need to know the real expiration of the tape because I don't like to write in this tape after 5 years?
Is any way to find it?
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What exactly do you mean by real expiration date? A date a tape becomes retired? Thanks!
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yes, for example, if I add a new (blank) tape today 1/07/19 I want to retired it after 3 years, and if I have date on it I need to be able to read them but not to write on it anymore, thank you
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So, would you like to have an option to set the lifetime for tapes and than track it?
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Correct
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For now there it's not possible. A tape gets placed into retired pool, as soon as we get the corresponding information from a tape drive.

Thank you for your feature request, though; it's been noted!
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