There's nothing wrong with your procedure that I can see.  The "retention
levels" are only used to assign the expiration date at the time the image is
made.  After that the expiration time is stored as an attribute of the
image.  You can change it at will using bpexpdate.

--Jim

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> From:         Brian_Drager AT vanguard DOT com[SMTP:Brian_Drager AT vanguard 
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> 
> Does anybody know if this will cause a problem. We get several different
> request
> to backup files/directories and they need to be retained for 2 yrs, 3yrs
> 7yrs
> etc. Basically Veritas NetBackup does not offer enough different retention
> levels for us. This is what I been doing and not sure if it will cause any
> problems. We set up a specal class and a volume pool to do this. The
> retention
> is set to infinity. Once the backup is completed I look up the backup id
> and
> then use bpexpdate to change the expiration date from infinity to what
> ever date
> I want that image to expire. Even know the class is set for infinity will
> the
> image still expire from these tapes that were setup in the special pool?
>