> From: louise.bazzard AT orangemail DOT nl [mailto:louise.bazzard AT 
> orangemail DOT nl]
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:35 PM

> I'm using NB 4.5mp3 on Sun Solaris 5.8.  A backup of several thousand files 
> has just completed
> after 5 days of running.  Unfortunately the backup retention level was too 
> low.  Re-running the
> backup is an option I would like to avoid, and so I thought I could extend 
> the expiration date.
> However I'm running into problems with the syntax and I can't work out what I 
> am doing wrong.
...
> The syntax I've been failing with is as follows:
>  
> Bpexpdate -recalculate -m media_id -host media_server -client client_name 
> -policy policy_name -ret 6 -M master_server.

 Anyway, the recalculate command supposes you change some of the retention 
level scale (ie. the
correspondence between a retention level and a time - fe. ret 0 = one week).

 What don't you just change those backupid :

 # bpepxdate -d date -backupid bid etc...

 If those backups are grouped on several tapes, and those tapes contain just 
those backups,
then act to the whole tape :

 # bpexpdate -d date -ev mediaid ...


 Hth && amicalement - fx.

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