How To Relabel an OSB Volume Before the Expiration Date is Reached (Doc ID 1516603.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 03, 2019

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Goal

In Oracle Secure Backup (OSB), you'll sometimes want to reuse an existing, used volume with an expiration time that hasn't reached yet. To re-use such a volume, you'll need to re-label the volume using the unlabelvol and labelvol commands of obtool. In such a case, the unlabelvol will fail with the error messages "Error: can't overwrite unexpired volume" and (in case of a "never expires" volume) "Error: this volume set never expires".

Here's an example of such a volume that never expires :

Solution

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