On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Ellis, Jason wrote:

> So I need to change the expiration date on a bunch of images to infinity
> (for legal reasons). I plan to write a script to parse a text file taken
> from a catalog search for the backupids of the needed images. I tested
> out changing the expiration date of an image to infinity manually first.
> When I ran a bpimagelist and converted the ctime for the expiration date
> I got back an expiration of "Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 2038."
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> My question is: Is this is just some random date that NetBackup assigns
> to images that are never supposed to expire?
2038 is the end of the UNIX epoch and that is why its associated with 
infinite retention

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> Below is the bpexpdate command I ran:
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> bpexpdate -backupid pasnas01a_1191283460 -d infinity -force
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> Jason Ellis
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