Sorry for the cut and paste but it is late and editing isn't on my todo list
:) 

What you want is near the top.

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Changing Expriation Date
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To change the off-site tapes expiration date from 3 months to 1 year from
the original backup date you can use one of 2 methods. The first is the
easiest and works for our setup because we want all images on a media to be
extended. If you want to do just one image on a media then you can use
second method.

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Method 1) - All Images on a Media
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bpexpdate  -ev  <media ID>  -d  <new expiration date>
ie. 
# bpexpdate  -ev  003363  -d  03/25/2002
or
# bpexpdate  -ev  003363  -d  03/25/2002 -force
to force it to do the operation (won't ask for confirmation on every tape).

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Method 2) - A Single Image on a Media
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The following three steps describe changing the retention level or
expiration date on duplicate images.

1) Make the duplicate image the primary copy to work with:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpduplicate -npc 2 -backupid <image name>

2) Set a new expiration date for the duplicate image:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpexpdate -recalculate -d <new date and
time> -backupid <image name>

OR

Change the retention level for the image:
bpexpdate -recalculate -ret <new retention level> -backupid <image name>

3) Change the primary copy back to the original image:
bpduplicate -npc 1 -backupid <image name>

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Newnham [mailto:terry.newnham AT showads.com DOT au]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:10 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Altering expire time (NB 3.2)



Hi

Occasionally I have requests from users who want to retain a backup for
a few days longer than its expire date - in other words they'd like to
change the expirey date on a given backup. Is this possible ?

Terry

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