....ooops, I stand corrected. I grabbed a script off of 
www.backupscripts.com, which changes retention levels, en masse. I named 
it bpretchange on my system; I think that I confused the two.

Pretty helpful script, I might add.

--Steve



Donaldson, Mark wrote:

>Nope - bpretlevel lets you manage your retention levels, ie: retlevel 1 = 2
>weeks retention.
>
>You want to use bpexpdate to change the retention of an existing tape or
>image.
>
>Check the man page, it's complex but the man page is pretty good on this
>one.
>
>-M
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:ssesar AT mitre DOT org]
>Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:51 AM
>To: Mark T Wragge
>Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can I change retention period of existing
>backups
>
>
>Yup Use 'bpretlevel'
>
>/export/home/m29338 > bpretlevel --
>bpretlevel: unrecognized option --
>USAGE: bpretlevel [-s|-l|-L|-U] [-M master_server,...]
>       bpretlevel {-r level period} | -d
>           [-M master_server,...]
>
>       -s
>           Short listing
>       -l
>           Condensed listing
>       -L
>           Long listing
>       -U
>           User listing
>       -r level period
>           Change the retention period for a retention level
>               Valid values for level:
>                   0..24
>               Valid values for period:
>                   <#days> day|days|d
>                   <#weeks> week|weeks|w
>                   <#months> month|months|m
>                   <#years> year|years|y
>                   infinite|infinity|i
>       -d
>           Restore default retention periods for all retention levels
>
>
>
>Mark T Wragge wrote:
>
>  
>
>> I have a number of clients which had a once off backup with a 
>>retention period of infinity.  I would like to remove these backups 
>>(to decrease the size of my catalog). What is the best way to do 
>>this?  Is it as simple as deleting the volumes that these backups were 
>>written to.
>>    
>>
>
>
>
>  
>


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