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netbackup 6 - expiry of media for reuse
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| Stuart 2006-01-22, 5:50 pm |
| hi - wonder if you can help - using netbackup 6, and need to know how
to expire images / media before their retention time is up. There a
couple of bpcommands to use - not sure which is the correct one is
looking for bp command to use, and correct syntax
thks - stuart.
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| ewilts 2006-01-24, 5:52 pm |
| Stuart wrote:
> hi - wonder if you can help - using netbackup 6, and need to know how
> to expire images / media before their retention time is up. There a
> couple of bpcommands to use - not sure which is the correct one is
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> looking for bp command to use, and correct syntax
Hi Stuart,
You're on the wrong list for this. Try the veritas-bu mailing list at
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailm...info/veritas-bu
Anyway, the correct command (at least in NetBackup 5) is bpexpdate.
They key thing to remember is that you typically want to expire
*images*, not *tapes*.
To expire all the images for client foo that were written in January
last year, I would use this:
# bpimagelist -U -d 01/01/2005 -e 02/01/2005 -client foo -L | grep
'Backup ID'
To expire those images, use this format (substituting the backupid from
the report above):
# bpexpdate -backupid foo_0904219764 -d 02/20/2006
Cheers,
.../Ed
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