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How to remove overwrite protectioin on tapes/Veritas

When tring to do backups in Veritas, I get
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Media 'DLT000002' is overwrite protected.

The media in drive 'DELL1' is currently allocated and is not available for overwrite operations.
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How can I remove this overwrite protection permanently for all my tapes?

OS is Windows Server 2003
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Your media pool probably has an expiration date set on it.  You can set the expiration time out down to less that 30 min or so on the pool, and it should take care of it in the future.  For now, you can move the media to the scratch media pool.
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