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[Veritas-bu] How do you expire catalog volumes?

2004-06-30 22:41:38
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How do you expire catalog volumes?
From: bedros.geyoghlian AT sbcglobal DOT net (Bedros Geyoghlian)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:41:38 -0700
At 07:21 PM 6/30/2004, WILLIAMS, KRISTOPHER L wrote:
>Could someone remind me again of the command to expire out a tape that
>has a Catalog backup on it? Bpexpdate does not work for catalog backups.

You can't expire catalog backups.  They remain on tape until overwritten by 
another catalog backup or until the header is rewritten.  You can use 
bplabel to write a regular NetBackup backup header on the tape.

HTH.

- Bedros

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