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[Veritas-bu] How do you expire catalog volumes?

2004-07-01 07:58:07
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How do you expire catalog volumes?
From: Robert.Stump AT dla DOT mil (Stump, Robert (Contractor) (DRMS))
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:58:07 -0400
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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Bedros
Geyoghlian
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:42 PM
To: WILLIAMS, KRISTOPHER L; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How do you expire catalog volumes?

At 07:21 PM 6/30/2004, WILLIAMS, KRISTOPHER L wrote:
>Could someone remind me again of the command to expire out a tape that 
>has a Catalog backup on it? Bpexpdate does not work for catalog backups.

You can't expire catalog backups.  They remain on tape until overwritten by
another catalog backup or until the header is rewritten.  You can use
bplabel to write a regular NetBackup backup header on the tape.

HTH.

- Bedros

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