All,

Actually, with NBU 3.1.1 and above, you have the ability to assign a
particular retention "period" to a retention "level". There are a total of
10 different retention levels (0 through 9). So, just change the default
retention PERIODS to accomodate your needs. This change is done on the
master server, Global Configuration screen (there will be a radio button
where you click on retention periods).

Regards,

Brian

Brian Blake
Enterprise Consulting Services
VERITAS Software
brian.blake AT veritas DOT com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vandevegt, James Matthew (Jim) [SMTP:vandevegt AT lucent DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:58 PM
> To:   'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Cc:   'Brian_Drager AT vanguard DOT com'
> Subject:      RE: [Veritas-bu] Expiration Dates
> 
> There's nothing wrong with your procedure that I can see.  The "retention
> levels" are only used to assign the expiration date at the time the image
> is
> made.  After that the expiration time is stored as an attribute of the
> image.  You can change it at will using bpexpdate.
> 
> --Jim
> 
> > ----------
> > From:       Brian_Drager AT vanguard DOT com[SMTP:Brian_Drager AT vanguard 
> > DOT com]
> > 
> > Does anybody know if this will cause a problem. We get several different
> > request
> > to backup files/directories and they need to be retained for 2 yrs, 3yrs
> > 7yrs
> > etc. Basically Veritas NetBackup does not offer enough different
> retention
> > levels for us. This is what I been doing and not sure if it will cause
> any
> > problems. We set up a specal class and a volume pool to do this. The
> > retention
> > is set to infinity. Once the backup is completed I look up the backup id
> > and
> > then use bpexpdate to change the expiration date from infinity to what
> > ever date
> > I want that image to expire. Even know the class is set for infinity
> will
> > the
> > image still expire from these tapes that were setup in the special pool?
> > 
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