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USBCSupport's avatar
13 years ago

Change retention period on backup

I am running Netbackup 7.1 on a Windows 2008 R2 machine. I reused an old VMware backup policy to take some full and (I thought) permanent backups of some old VMs. I loaded several new tapes and added...
  • J_H_Is_gone's avatar
    13 years ago

    sorry you need to do it at command line

    bpexpdate -m <mediaid>  -d infinity

    this would Chang the expiration date of all the images on the media id given to infinity

    the tapes do not need an expiration date if the images have infinity or not ( that is just if you want to stop using a tape after it reach a certain age)