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AnandhaKannan_D
Level 4
4 years ago

Change expiration date to all backups image in catalog to infinite

Hi All, I have a requirement to change expiration date for all backup image in catalog to infinite. I aware by backup ID, Media ID or client name we can do the changes but i want to have a single co...
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  • quebek's avatar
    quebek
    4 years ago

    Hello

    I am not aware of any command to change expiration for backup images kept in certain storage unit...

    What I would do is:

    • list all backups and take out only backup ID part of it (in my NBU version it is column 10th)
    • than run against each image a bpexpdate command ie:

    bpimagelist -d 1/1/1970 -idonly |awk '{print $10}'  |xargs -n1 bpexpdate -force -d infinity -backupid

    and that should be done... If you have thousands of backup images I would do some logging etc... and make sure that your session will not die in mean time... on linux i would do in in screen....

quebek's avatar
quebek
Moderator
4 years ago

Hello

I am not aware of any command to change expiration for backup images kept in certain storage unit...

What I would do is:

  • list all backups and take out only backup ID part of it (in my NBU version it is column 10th)
  • than run against each image a bpexpdate command ie:

bpimagelist -d 1/1/1970 -idonly |awk '{print $10}'  |xargs -n1 bpexpdate -force -d infinity -backupid

and that should be done... If you have thousands of backup images I would do some logging etc... and make sure that your session will not die in mean time... on linux i would do in in screen....

  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    Level 6
    4 years ago

    You can also create a touch file in the NetBackup bin directory called NOexpire. This will prevent NetBackup from running the expirey process. It does not change anything in  the catalog, so if the file is later removed, on the next cleanup run, everything that should have expired will be - so this is not a complete solution. Have a read of the article which explains its use and provide warnings:

    https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100002418

     

    • AnandhaKannan_D's avatar
      AnandhaKannan_D
      Level 4
      4 years ago

      davidmoline  You are right it is not complete solution i hope even in the article i can see it is not fomally supported.The NOexpire touch file (NOexpire) prevents the automatic expiration of backup images within the image data base and is therefore not formally supported

  • AnandhaKannan_D's avatar
    AnandhaKannan_D
    Level 4
    4 years ago

    quebek  Thanks for Unix command. Do u have the same for Windows.