I think i ran into a bug with /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/NOexpire or the 
catalog restore.

I tried to re-import the catalog tape of that were expired but the images 
did not show up. The images and catalog i'm looking for are 3 weeks old 
while the retention is 2 weeks.

So NOexpire either doesn't work or I think the netbackupDB was possibly 
re-applying the transaction logs after the restore.

I restored a 1 week old catalog/images and i can see them fine. I'll find 
out in about 1 week if NOexpire works.

I'm not sure if i'm going to place a service call with Symantec about this 
or not, it depends on how much time i have to log everything they need.

Karl


veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu wrote on 04/04/2007 10:37:20 AM:

> > We are restoring a catalog tape to our dv environment(same server 
name). 
> > The catalog db seems to be expiring the images we are testing with 
since 
> > time has progressed past the expiry time.
> > 
> > Is there a way to tell the catalog db to not expire any images? 
> 
> I came across this information in the past and wrote it down, but I am
> not sure how well it works.  But reportedly touching
> 
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/NOexpire
> 
> will tell netbackup to not perform any expiration.  I figure it's good
> for a decommissioned or DR server that is not actually performing any
> active backups and doesn't need the space.
> 
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