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eng_elfateh's avatar
eng_elfateh
Level 4
12 years ago

change Retintion Period for Old Full backup and Incrimentals

Hello ,

I'm Using Symantec Netbackup 7.0.1 Running On windows Server 2008

i have Full Backup On Tape at 12-Oct-2013 , Inc at 12,13,14,15,16,17,19,20,21,22 On Disk

 

How Could i make the Expire Retention = < Infinity > Period for the Full backups and it's Incremental’s

 

Sincerely ,

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  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    12 years ago

    you need to use the bpexpdate command..

    1)identify the all backup IDs for full and incrmental backups

    2) then run the below command to make them infinite....

    bpexpdate -recalculate -backupid  <backupid>  -ret 9

    Note:- this command will make the backup images retenction to infinte..so they will never get deleted.. all incrmental backup stays in the disk for life time.. ( you will never get space from disk)

    so for infinte , i would suggest you to duplicate the incrmental backups to tape with infinte retenction.. they will help you for offiste rotation also.. 

  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    12 years ago

    you need to use the bpexpdate command..

    1)identify the all backup IDs for full and incrmental backups

    2) then run the below command to make them infinite....

    bpexpdate -recalculate -backupid  <backupid>  -ret 9

    Note:- this command will make the backup images retenction to infinte..so they will never get deleted.. all incrmental backup stays in the disk for life time.. ( you will never get space from disk)

    so for infinte , i would suggest you to duplicate the incrmental backups to tape with infinte retenction.. they will help you for offiste rotation also.. 

  • eng_elfateh's avatar
    eng_elfateh
    Level 4
    12 years ago

    I tried to use (( bpexpdate  )) command but it is not recognized .

    i searched for bpexpdate.exe in    Varites\Netbackup\bin     but i didn't found it

    what shoud i do ?

     

     

  • Stumpr2's avatar
    Stumpr2
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    I would not extend the retention to infinity. Instead I would make duplicates of the images unto a single tape for both the full and incremental backups with an expiration of infinity for the duplicated images. There is a very easy GUI process found under the catalog section of the GUI to be used for doing this.  I would also make the duplicated images the primary copy also under the catalog section.