As long as you don't reuse the tape(s) and they are expired, you can use
bpimport to bring the images on the tapes back in.

RCA

Jeff Kennedy wrote:
> 
> I am wondering about the way images are expired and what my options
> are.  Currently I have my expiration for all images set to 6 weeks,
> which means every 6 weeks the image database info is purged and that
> tape is now ready to be re-used, correct?  I think it is so I'll
> continue on that assumption.
> 
> What I would like to see is what was available in BudTool.  You could
> set the time that the image was not over-writable, say 6 weeks, but the
> image data would stay in the database until it was actually
> overwritten.  So, I could set an image to be locked for 6 weeks, but if
> the tape had not been written to, and it was week 8, you could still
> browse the image data.
> 
> Does such an option exist in NetBackup?
> 
> Thanks.
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> =====================
> Jeff Kennedy
> Unix Administrator
> AMCC
> jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com

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