Command for getting Backupid

the command to get the image id is the bpimagelist. run the command

bpimagelist -d <start_date> -e <end_date> -client <clientname>

and pipe it to: find "IMAGE" for windows or grep IMAGE for linux, to get the IMAGE line. The sixth column is the backupid.

then run the command :

bpexpdate -backupid <backuid> -d <date>   to change the expiration date ot

bpexpdate: -recalculate -backupid <backup id> -ret <retention level> to change the expiration by changing the retention level.

 

if you are using unix/linux you car run the following script. 
change the start_date, clientname and date according to your needs and run it.
the output will be the commands you have to run in order to change the retention. check them and copy paste them to a prompt.

If you are OK you can delete the echo and the commands will run automatically.

bpimagelist -d <start_date> -e <end_date> -client <clientname>|grep IMAGE |awk '{print $6}>/tmp/backupid.txt
for backupid in  `cat /tmp/backupid.txt`
do
echo bpexpdate -backupid ${backupid} -d <date> -force
done

 

Be careful because the command bpexpdate -backupid <backupid> -d 0 will expire your backups immediately.

 

 

Hopefully the backups have not yet expired?

If not, this is how I would do it:

bpimagelist -idonly -client <client-name> -d <start-date> -e <end-date>
(format for start and enddate: mm/dd/yyyy)

 

To extend expiration date:

bpexpdate -backupid <backup-id> -d <mm/dd/yyyy>
(where the date specified with -d is new expiration date)