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crscsy
Level 3
7 years ago

Enterprise Vault Retention jobs 7 months or older

Hello all,

      The policy for the business has changed to no longer keeping backups 7 months or older.

I realize I can set the long term policies/jobs to do no longer than 7 months. However is there a way to retire all older media (7+ months ) after the change is made?

 

Thanks!

 

7.7
Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    7 years ago

    I assume you have customized a retention for 7 months? (e.g. changed level 6 to 7 months)

    If so, and if all backups are on tape, then you can run Media List report (bpmedialist) to obtain a list of media id's.

    You can one-by-one use bpexpdate to recalculate retention for each media id or else script it (depending on your scripting skill).
    e.g. bpexpdate -m A00001 -recalculate -ret 6 

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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    7 years ago

    I assume you have customized a retention for 7 months? (e.g. changed level 6 to 7 months)

    If so, and if all backups are on tape, then you can run Media List report (bpmedialist) to obtain a list of media id's.

    You can one-by-one use bpexpdate to recalculate retention for each media id or else script it (depending on your scripting skill).
    e.g. bpexpdate -m A00001 -recalculate -ret 6 

    • crscsy's avatar
      crscsy
      Level 3
      7 years ago

      Thank you

    • crscsy's avatar
      crscsy
      Level 3
      7 years ago

      Upon running this command I recieve invalad command usage

      bpexpdate -recalculate -ret 7 -m 0001L2

      What am i missing?

  • sdo's avatar
    sdo
    Moderator
    7 years ago

    How many backup clients are affected?

    • crscsy's avatar
      crscsy
      Level 3
      7 years ago

      Unfortunately we are talking about 100s give or take