[Veritas-bu] Court No-destroy on backups

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Freezing will prevent the data on the expired tape from being overwritten
but your catalog tracking for it is going to get whacked.  You'd have to
import the tape to get it recreated.  I'm with Kate on this, change the
expiration date.  See the "bpexpdate" command for this.
 
-M

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Bobby R 
Windle
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:53 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Court No-destroy on backups



I have backups on media that have a retention policy I will exceed sooner or
later. I asked 
our support vendor a year ago about how can I assure that the data and
catalog stuff will not 
go away on me. They said all I need to do is do a bpmedia - freeze -m
VOLNAME. Is this true? 
Will the catalog data stay as well? 

Thanks 

Bobby Windle
W.L. Gore & associates, Inc.
bwindle AT wlgore DOT com
cell : (302) 588-7374 (preferred)
office: (410) 506-4117    fax: (410) 506-4400


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size=2>Freezing will prevent the data on the expired tape from being 
overwritten 
but your catalog tracking for it is going to get whacked.&nbsp; You'd have to 
import the tape to get it recreated.&nbsp; I'm with Kate on this, change the 
expiration date.&nbsp; See the "bpexpdate" command for this.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-M</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> 
  veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
  [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]<B>On Behalf Of 
</B>Bobby R 
  Windle<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:53 AM<BR><B>To:</B> 
  veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Veritas-bu] 
Court 
  No-destroy on backups<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I 
  have backups on media that have a retention policy I will exceed sooner or 
  later. I asked</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>our support vendor a 
  year ago about how can I assure that the data and catalog stuff will 
  not</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>go away on me. They said all I 
  need to do is do a bpmedia - freeze -m VOLNAME. Is this true?</FONT> 
<BR><FONT 
  face=sans-serif size=2>Will the catalog data stay as well?</FONT> 
  <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Thanks</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif 
  size=2><BR>Bobby Windle<BR>W.L. Gore &amp; associates, 
  Inc.<BR>bwindle AT wlgore DOT com<BR>cell : (302) 588-7374 
(preferred)<BR>office: 
  (410) 506-4117 &nbsp; &nbsp;fax: (410) 
506-4400</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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