You are changing the retention based on the policy.  You may have backups
from other policies on the tape with the 2 year retention.

You may also want to ensure that the tapes "came" from the scratch pool.
They may be showing as not assigned in a pool other than scratch.

 




Bobby Williams
2205 Peterson Drive
Chattanooga, Tennessee  37421
423-296-8200

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Change retention in all tapes in a policy


Hello

I have a policy with name Users. I now want to change retention to all tapes
in this policy from 2, to 1 year. (I have a custom retention for 2 years as
retention level 6)

I used the command:
bpexpdate -policy Users -recalculate -ret 8

Then I get a warning:
Are you SURE you want to recalculate expiration dates on all images that
meet the following criteria:
policy       Users
retention will be changed to 8(1 year)

Continue?(y/n)

I answers Yes, and the system seems to process for some minutes.

After this I check if this have moved tapes to Scratch, but no. Beacuse this
should have realeased a lot of tapes, and moved it to scratch pool.

Is it something I missing here? Do I have to manually change retention on
every tape?

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