[Veritas-bu] Can I change retention period of existing backups
2003-09-19 09:50:58
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[Veritas-bu] Can I change retention period of existing backups |
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ssesar AT mitre DOT org (Steven L. Sesar) |
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Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:50:58 -0400 |
Yup Use 'bpretlevel'
/export/home/m29338 > bpretlevel --
bpretlevel: unrecognized option --
USAGE: bpretlevel [-s|-l|-L|-U] [-M master_server,...]
bpretlevel {-r level period} | -d
[-M master_server,...]
-s
Short listing
-l
Condensed listing
-L
Long listing
-U
User listing
-r level period
Change the retention period for a retention level
Valid values for level:
0..24
Valid values for period:
<#days> day|days|d
<#weeks> week|weeks|w
<#months> month|months|m
<#years> year|years|y
infinite|infinity|i
-d
Restore default retention periods for all retention levels
Mark T Wragge wrote:
> I have a number of clients which had a once off backup with a
> retention period of infinity. I would like to remove these backups
> (to decrease the size of my catalog). What is the best way to do
> this? Is it as simple as deleting the volumes that these backups were
> written to.
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