On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:

> Hi,
> Retention is set correct. For daily it is set to 14 days and weekly one
> month and for monthly it is 3 months. I had a backup on 11/03/2007 and it
> is showing the expiration date as 11/17/2007. But the image is not deleted
> and I can still restore from it.
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> Thanks & Regards,
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> Ratheesh R Das
> M I N D S P E E D Technologies
> Storage and Backup | 866-772-4252 ext 2301
> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
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> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
> 11/19/2007 05:51 PM
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> Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5
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> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
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>> Hi Guys,
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>> I have netbackup 4.5 running in solaris. I am now seeing that my backups
>> are not expiring even after the expiration date and I can even restore
>> from them. Pls suggest what can be the problem.
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>> Thanks & Regards,
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>> Ratheesh R Das
>> M I N D S P E E D Technologies
>> Storage and Backup | 866-772-4252 ext 2301
>> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
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> What is the retention set to in the polices?
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> Justin.
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In this case, you may have other images with different retentions set to 
the tape; however that would not explain why you can still restore from 
something that should have expired on 11/17/2007.  Is your date set right 
on all of your servers?  What does your bp.conf file look like on the 
master server?

Justin.
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