Author: Dennis Dwyer dfdwyer AT tecoenergy DOT com
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:35:36 -0500
I just changed all retention periods in all classes for my weekly FULL backups from 6 weeks to 5 weeks. What I'd like to do now is go out and force any tapes that contain images older than 5 weeks to
One easy way to do it would be to identify the tapes you want to expire, then use "bpexpdate -ev <TAPE_ID> -d 0" to force them to expire. Alternatively, you could find all the images you want to expi
Author: mccarthy AT bbo DOT com mccarthy AT bbo DOT com
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:40:17 -0500
Dennis, I had to use the cmd (bpexpdate) to change the expir date for images. I actually was able to expir the whole tape, so that may have made it easier for me than just certain images. However, I
Author: Ravi Channavajhala ravi.channavajhala AT csfb DOT com
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:50:43 -0500 (EST)
Dennis, Easiest way is to write a script to do this, identify the media ids by using /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimmedia -class <WEEKLY_FULL> and look for the expires column. The field 13, is