Hi,

bpexpdate will update the catalog on the retention of the images.

But my question to you, the purpose of performing duplication is to have a
second copy of the respective backups.

So if you change the retention period before a duplication. How are you
going to restore those that are of longer retention if the primary copy
happen to be damage???

ACC

-----Original Message-----
From: Ballowe, Charles
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Sent: 8/6/02 12:19 AM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpexpdate questions etc.

Ok... Here's what I want to be able to do.

I don't want to set NBU to allow multiple retentions per media.
I want to have my duplicate images all go to the same set of tapes.
Some of my backups have different retention times.

What I'm thinking about doing:

After my backups, with retention times set by the classes, have my
duplication script do 'bpexpdate -recalculate ...' for the images
that have the longer retention period so that they match the rest
of the backups. After that, do the duplication and then change them
back.

Does 'bpexpdate -recalculate' actually change the retention level in
the image database, or does it just recalculate the expiration date?

Does anybody see anything else potentially wrong with this concept?


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