This command worked perfectly. I was able to obtain the backupid and using 
that, change the retention period. The default for a formatted report is 
apparently 20 characters. Thanks. Now I should be able to move those tapes to a 
storage pool that resides outside the library and eject the tapes. You don't 
happen to know if NetBackup will ask for a tape if it's outside and wait for 
the insertion or do I have to insert the tape in the library before I ask for 
it?

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
Enterprise Storage Manager
Tampa Electric Company

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>>> <KevinB AT paccessglobal DOT com> 05/23/01 11:38AM >>>
Try the lower case l option for the unformatted output (bpimmedia -l
-mediaid xxxxxx).  

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Floro [mailto:gregory.floro AT photobition DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:16 AM
To: dfdwyer AT tecoenergy DOT com 
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
Subject: Re(2): Re(2): [Veritas-bu] Duplicating Images to Another NBU
Server


I am not sure if this would work for you [since my backup ids aren't that
long I cannot really test it]
# bpimmedia -L -media vsn | awk '{print $1}'

If that doesn't give you the full output of your backup_ids, I suggest
contacting support, unless someone
else on the list has a solution

dfdwyer AT tecoenergy DOT com writes:
>Thanks for the command. This looks like one of those undocumented ones. I
>ran it and it will give me what I'm looking for but I still have the same
>problem as using the GUI. My server names are quite long (ie;
>server-name-novell-srv) because for Novell I have to use the fully
>qualified server name (Novell 4.1 does not utilize DNS). When NBU adds
>his big long date/time stamp to the end of the server name, I get
>truncation. Is there any known way to increase the size of the columns in
>the output list so I can see the entire backupid?
>
>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
>Enterprise Storage Manager
>Tampa Electric Company
>
>(813) 225-5181  - Voice
>(813) 275-3599  - FAX


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