Dave,

If I understand what you are asking correctly, I would do the following:

- check expiration date with bpmedialist
#bpmedialist -ev $MEDIA_ID -M $MASTER_SERVER

- change expiration date with bpexpdate
#bpexpdate -ev $MEDIA_ID -d mm/dd/yyy hh:mm:ss -M $MASTER_SERVER

The medialist command will give you output like this:

 id     rl  images   allocated        last updated      density  kbytes 
restores
           vimages   expiration       last read         <------- STATUS 
------->
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NTW01    4      1   04/01/2002 09:13  04/01/2002 09:13     dlt   2337953       
0
                1   06/02/2002 10:13        N/A

Well, hopefully a little neater than that.  :)  The last date/time showing 
is when it expires and will be removed from the db.

HTH,
Ron Lyman
Network Support
Moen Incorporated
(905) 829-3400 x 253

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, David Markham wrote:

> Can you extend the retention of a tape?
>  
> I had a backup from one site and transferred it to another site and have
> imported the information, but as I understand it the imported image
> information will only retain in the Netbackup db's on site 2 for as long
> as the retention period was set for the backup on site 1. 
>  
> So.. is there any way to extend the retention for a tape??
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Netbackup 3.2GA on solaris 8
>  
> Dave
> 
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