As with all things unix there may be more than one way to skin a cat. I
don't know if your way will work all I know is that the 3 step process
listed below works for me and was from Veritas' web site.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca] [mailto:AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 2:13 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Changing retention periods


Myabe I'm doing it wrong then...

I was using bpexpdate and setting the expiry of the volume as desired. Will
this not work?

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim McMurphy [mailto:Tim.McMurphy AT telus DOT com]
> Sent: May 8, 2001 16:05
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Changing retention periods
> 
> 
> To Change the Retention Level of Duplicated Tapes
> The following three steps describe changing the retention 
> level (rl) or
> expiration date on duplicate images.
> 
> 1) Make the duplicate image the primary copy to work with:
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpduplicate -npc 2 
> -backupid <image name>
> 
> 2) Change the retention level for the image:
> bpexpdate -recalculate -ret <new retention level> -backupid 
> <image name>
> 
> 3) Change the primary copy back to the original image:
> bpduplicate -npc 1 -backupid <image name>
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