Ravi,

Thanks for the information. Perhaps you could clarify something for me. When I 
issue the bpimmedia command for a CLASS and a SCHEDULE I receive an IMAGE line 
with information as well as one or more FRAG lines. All these lines contain 
dates but I'm assuming your reference is to the FRAG lines because the field 
numbers you mentioned (9 & 13) seem to work out on that one. My concern is that 
the date represented in field 17 (it may be 18) on the FRAG line tends to be 
well past the date represented in field 13. Is there any documentation 
available for these fields? I find that the command itself is also 
undocumented. I am running NBU 3.2 by the way. I gotta be sure I get this right 
so I don't expire something that shouldn't be expired. I also have an issue 
with multiple images on a single tape that may not all expire at the same time 
so I might want to expire the images rather the media (if that's possible). 
Granted, they are all the same retention period (6 weeks) but some images may 
be newer than others and were appended to that tape because it was the correct 
retention period and had space available.

Regards,
Dennis

Quote: "Time is not a test of the truth"
Translation: Just because you've always done it that way, doesn't make it right

Dennis F. Dwyer
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Tampa Electric Company

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>>> Ravi Channavajhala <ravi.channavajhala AT csfb DOT com> 01/22/01 11:50AM >>>
Dennis,

Easiest way is to write a script to do this, identify the media ids
by using

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimmedia -class <WEEKLY_FULL>
and look for the expires column.

The field 13, is the expiration date and the field 9 is the tape ID,
I think.

Then run the list of identified media IDs thru bpexpdate -ev <media_id>
-d 0.

-ravi

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Dennis Dwyer wrote:

dfdwye>I just changed all retention periods in all classes for my
dfdwye>weekly FULL backups from 6 weeks to 5 weeks. What I'd like
dfdwye>to do now is go out and force any tapes that contain images
dfdwye>older than 5 weeks to expire. Is there an easy way to do
dfdwye>this or do I just have to wait for natural attrition?
dfdwye>
dfdwye>Regards,
dfdwye>Dennis
dfdwye>
dfdwye>Quote: "Time is not a test of the truth"
dfdwye>Translation: Just because you've always done it that way, doesn't make 
it right
dfdwye>
dfdwye>Dennis F. Dwyer
dfdwye>Enterprise Storage Manager