Darren Dunham wrote:
>> Here is a script that I used to run on my index tapes to reset the
>> browse and recycle times.  There was a bug in 7.2 (and 7.1 I think)
>> where setting them on the savegrp command line didn't always work, so I
>> ran the following after my daily disaster recovery index backups.  This
>> script sets the expiration time to 14 days, but you can make it any
>> number of days in the future by changing the "14" in the line "$time +=
>> (14 * 24 * 60 * 60)".  This is written for my pool "LTO Index", so
>> you'll want to change that to your pool name.
>>     
>
>   
>>       # Get new time, date + 14 days
>>       # (use noon to avoid daylight savings time problems)
>>       my $time = timelocal(0,0,12,$mday,($mon-1),($year-1900));
>>       $time += (14 * 24 * 60 * 60);
>>       my $newdate = strftime("%m/%d/%y",localtime($time));
>>       while(<MMINFO>) {
>>         chomp;
>>         #`nsrmm -e $newdate -w $newdate -S $_`;
>>         `nsrmm -e $newdate -w $newdate -S $_`;
>>     
>
> I don't know if it was affected by the same bug, but you should be able
> to ask networker to do the date calculations for you.
>
> 'nsrmm -e "14 days" -w "14 days" -S <ssid>'
>   

Yes, but that gives you 14 days from today, and in my case I needed 14
days from when the data was written.  Most of the time those were the
same, but I went through a period where I was running this script on
older data, so wanted to keep the expirations consistent.

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