It will import to the value set by the Retention level.  The image has the
retention level as an integer.  The master server interprets the expiration
based on the retention level.

If you have ret level 13 set at infinity, when you import the tape, it will
still be level 13.  The master will calculate the expiration at infinity.

If you expire the tape, change ret level 13 to be immediate, import the tape
again, it will expire as soon as the phase 2 import is finished.

That is why it is VERY VERY important to maintain the same retention levels
across all of your enterprise sites that my use different master servers.
(like a hot DR site). 




Bobby Williams
2205 Peterson Drive
Chattanooga, Tennessee  37421
423-296-8200

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:23 PM
To: Pablo Barbáchano
Cc: Ellis, Jason; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] I guess infinity isn't forever...

Hm very good question!

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Pablo Barbáchano wrote:

> 2038 is the end of UNIX epoch in 32bit systems. In 64bit systems is 
> some ridiculous value after the sun explodes etc

Question is if you import those images from a 32 bits NetBackup to a 64 bit
NetBackup, will they still expire in 2038 or automatically change to the
2^64 ?

----- Mensaje original ----
De: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Para: "Ellis, Jason" <Jason.Ellis AT imb DOT com>
CC: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Enviado: jueves, 18 de octubre, 2007 17:47:38
Asunto: Re: [Veritas-bu] I guess infinity isn't forever...



On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Ellis, Jason wrote:

> So I need to change the expiration date on a bunch of images to
  infinity
> (for legal reasons). I plan to write a script to parse a text file
  taken
> from a catalog search for the backupids of the needed images. I
  tested
> out changing the expiration date of an image to infinity manually
  first.
> When I ran a bpimagelist and converted the ctime for the expiration
  date
> I got back an expiration of "Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 2038."
>
>
>
> My question is: Is this is just some random date that NetBackup
  assigns
> to images that are never supposed to expire?
2038 is the end of the UNIX epoch and that is why its associated with
infinite retention

>
>
>
> Below is the bpexpdate command I ran:
>
>
>
> bpexpdate -backupid pasnas01a_1191283460 -d infinity -force
>
>
> Jason Ellis
>
>
>
>
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