A couple of things:
1) The PDFs are all there, or should be. For mine it was in a docall.tar file in
/usr/openv/netbackup/vault. All the params are in the docs.
2) the retention_length args are all positive integers, AFAIK. I have not tried
a negative num, and suspect it will not work.
The docs say:
retention_length is the number of days to add to a duplicate image's
expiration date based on the retention level of the image.
retention_length <num1> <num2>
<num1> is a positive integer between 0 - 9
<num2> is an integer of the number of days to add onto the expiration.
3) you can only have one retention_length param set per dup_param file.
4) It sounds to me that you might want to reverse things. But, I am also sure I
don't understand exactly what you are looking for. In short, the 2 ways
recommended are:
- dup your tapes and eject the ORIGINAL and offsite that.
- dup your tapes and eject the DUPS for offsiting.
By sitting down and figuring out what you need you can make it fit these two
ways. It occurs to me that your system is not why I offsite tapes. Normally
people want the offsite version to outlive the onsite one, since that is for
disaster recovery. Why else offsite, no? If the images expire offsite before the
ones onsite, that would hardly buy any disaster recovery. Normally, therefore,
you would want to make your offsite copy to had a positive integer added to the
expiration date.
Now, let's say you really, really wnat your method to work. I ask no questions
now...just wait until a real disaster does hit and I think you might be forced
to agree with the above method of offsiting a tape retained for somewhat longer
than the original. Anyway, so you would simply eject the original and offsite
those tapes, giving them a 1 month retention via normal NBU means. Then use the
dup_param to add a positive integer onto the expire to bring it up to the
current set you are keeping onsite. So, you would flip what you are doing and
what you are offsiting. By making the originals have the shorter expire and
offsiting those you get what you want...tapes that expire in one month. Then the
dups are the main images to do day to day restores from and can have the
slightly longer retention.
Again, I may not understand what you are looking for. Regardless, I hope this
helps further.
Yours,
Chris
"Letnes, David G." wrote:
> So if I want ALL my dup tapes to have a retention of 1 month, for each
> regular backup retention level I would have to set a retention_length? For
> example...
>
> If I have regular backups with retention level of 6 months
> retention_length 6 -156
>
> If I have regular backups with retention level of 3 months
> retention_length 5 -63
>
> If I have regular backups with retention level of 1 months
> retention_length 3 0
>
> changeexpdate 1
> retention_length 6 -156
> retention_length 5 -63
> retention_length 3 0
>
> I didn't have any documentation pertaining to all the parameters of the dup
> param file. Does anyone have some .pdf files or any documentation for Vault
> V1.4 or similar that talks about all the parameters possible?
>
> Thanks in advance
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Manders [mailto:CJManders AT lbl DOT gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:00 PM
> To: Letnes, David G.
> Cc: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] vault retention different than original backup
>
> Hi,
>
> You need to make sure that you have the following set to 1:
>
> changeexpdate 1
>
> and then the very next var is set to whatever you want to change the
> retention
> time of the Dups to, for us it is 275.
>
> retention_length 5 275
>
> Note that the second param is the level, so all level 5 images are changed
> to
> add 275 days.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chris
>
> > I am doing my regular backups on Solaris Netbackup 3.2 and have retention
> of
> > 3 months. I want to vault for 1 month. What would I have to set in my
> dup
> > param file to change the retention to 1 month only for offsite vault
> tapes?
> >
> > Thank You
> > David
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