Thank you Marcel
Please be assured I was not out to criticise, merely wanted to be sure what
I was advising a colleague was 100% correct, otherwise they will end up
re-importing a lot of tapes :-)

Thank you very, very much!

Simon Weaver 
Technical Support 
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium 
Tel: 02392-708598 

Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net 



-----Original Message-----
From: Drunen van, Marcel [mailto:marcel.drunenvan AT nl.unisys DOT com] 
Sent: 16 January 2006 08:22
To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: URGENT CLARIFITION -= Help (WEAVER, Simon)


Simon,

Ah, never too old to learn! You are right, the -backupID switch will set the
expiration date for the image. Until now I always used the -m
(mediaID) switch, I think it was the only one available in version 3.4.1.,
which was the first version I was trained on. But if you look at the
commands manual for 5.1, the -backupID switch is properly described. It will
set the retention for an entire backup, even if it spans volumes or has
multiple copies, without changing the expiration date for the other images
on the same tapes.

So now when you want to set the extension for a backup you have to know
either the backupID or the tapes it resides on physically. Most of my
customers keep track of the media where their backups reside on rather than
the backupID, which is why I never bothered to look at expiring individual
backups, besides that I always thought you could not do that anyway. But
again, never too old to learn.

CU,

Marcel

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