Hi Larry,
Thanks for the pointer to the Veritas site. I had to use :-
bpexpdate -recalculate -backupid <backup-id> -d infinity -force
Did this to all backup-ids on the tape and now the "Tape" has an expiration
time of infinity. Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: lkingery AT veritas DOT com [mailto:lkingery AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2002 11:25 PM
To: Andrew Wilkin
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to change expiration of a Tape
It tells me that this tape has a database backup on it, I believe
obackup is Oracle 7 EBU but I'm not positive. I'm not sure why
you're not allowed to change the retention of an obackup image, but
it sure looks intentional.
Hmm, this looks promising...
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/185980.htm
>
>
> Larry,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Yes I'm running the command on the Master/Media
> Server.
>
> I have another message from a log file also :-
>
> TIME SERVER/CLIENT TEXT
> 01/30/02 13:25:30 sydbak - media SVB105 contains obackup image...cannot
> change
> This I found from the Reports -> Problem, pull down. This must have
occured
> after I ran the command. Which log file could I look in to get more info
on
> this message?
>
> Does this help shed andy light I my problem? As I mentioned, I haven't yet
> checked the consistency of the Media Database. I shall check it tomorrow.
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Kingery [mailto:larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2002 2:42 PM
> To: Andrew Wilkin
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unable to change expiration of a Tape
>
>
> You need to run bpexpdate on the media server which wrote the tape, or
> use the -h flag. You also can't change the exp date when the tape is
> in use. Also, check the netbackup/logs/admin/log*.
>
> Oh, and you're actually not changing the expiration date of the tape
> (the time at which we will no longer write to the tape), but the
> expiration of all the images on that tape (the time that we will
> retain catalog information about said images, and not reuse said
> tape). It's a minor detail, but does lead to confusion sometimes when
> people see 'expiration date' of media in the GUI and don't understand
> what that really means.
>
> Andrew Wilkin writes:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I'm trying to manually change the expiration date of a Tape. I'm using
> > the following :-
> >
> > sydbak SUPER # bpexpdate -ev SVB105 -d infinity
> > Are you SURE you want to change SVB105
> > to NEVER expire y/n (n)? y
> > unable to process request
> > sydbak SUPER #
> >
> > What is to possible cause of the return string "unable to process
> > request"?
> >
> > I haven't check for a consistent database yet.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Andrew Wilkin
> > Computer Systems Analyst
> >
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> >
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