Difference between tape expiry date & image expiry date
Hi,
i am new for netbackup S/W...
Can anyone tell me the basic diffrence bitween tape expiry date & image expiry date . & what happen after tape expiry date & image expiry date ..
Than...
- tape expiry is for the physical media. Think of it as shelf life. If you have a new tape and you do not want to use it after it is 3 years old then set the tape expiry to 3 years. After 3 years NetBackup will no longer write to it. Images that are on it may or may not have expired. If they have not expired then they can still be used for a restore.
Image retention is how long the image written to the tape can be used to do a restore.
if you have a tape that has a 3 year tape expiry and an image on it with a 7 year retention then the tape will no longer be able to be written to after 3 years and the image can no longer be used for a restore after 7 years.
