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[Veritas-bu] Change retention in all tapes in a policy

2007-10-01 09:13:32
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Change retention in all tapes in a policy
From: osonder <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:37:01 -0700
Hello

I have a policy with name Users. I now want to change retention to all tapes in 
this policy from 2, to 1 year. (I have a custom retention for 2 years as 
retention level 6)

I used the command:
bpexpdate -policy Users -recalculate -ret 8

Then I get a warning:
Are you SURE you want to recalculate expiration dates on all images that meet 
the following criteria:
policy       Users
retention will be changed to 8(1 year)

Continue?(y/n)

I answers Yes, and the system seems to process for some minutes.

After this I check if this have moved tapes to Scratch, but no. Beacuse this 
should have realeased a lot of tapes, and moved it to scratch pool.

Is it something I missing here? Do I have to manually change retention on every 
tape?

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