I was digging around for how to change the retention period of backups
for a particular client... there are some ideas out there, but I believe 
this one provides more options in a single email.   So here's my 2 cents.

root@boreal (177) # pwd
/boreal1/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
root@boreal (177) # ./bpexpdate -recalculate -ret 9 -sched 0 -client
sprocket -class NT_Server_C5

Here, we are going to command bpexpdate to recalculate the retention period
of the -SCHED = 0 (FULLS) for the -CLIENT = sprocket, and only for
those backups that are from the -CLASS = NT_Server_C5, setting the retention

period to INFINITY.

options:
legal values for sched: 0=full,1=differential
incr,2=user,3=arch,4=cumulative incr
legal values for ret: ...  4=2months, ... 8=1 year, 9=INFINITY...
(I believe 'ret' can be adjusted but this is the default.)


Patrick Boyle   
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