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Sunny04
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13 years ago
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How to find the retention of backup in SLP

Hi All

Recently I have taken a full backup in  a disk and duplicated it to tape through SLP with a retention of 2 yrs. While checking the retention level with bpimagelist, it shows the retention of a primary copy not the duplicated copy.

Anyone has any idea how to check the retention of image for the duplicated copy via command.

Netbackup Master : 7.1.02

OS : Solaris 10

Thanks in Advance 

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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    Use bpimagelist with -idonly option to get image id.

    You can use bpimagelist as follows to get all retention levels:

    bpimagelist -backupid <backup_id> -L 

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  • sksujeet's avatar
    sksujeet
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    use bpexpdate with copy option to extend the duplicated copy. If the duplication went to tape then just extend the tape expiration for 2 years

    bpexpdate -m <media-id>

    Edit: I misread your question. The duplication went to tape. To check the retetion of the tape use below command

    bpmedialist -m <tape number>

  • Sunny04's avatar
    Sunny04
    Level 3
    13 years ago

    @Sazz : Thanks for the quick response, I dont am looking for output like we get in bpimagelist format

    bpimagelist -client <clientname> -d <date> -U

    Please help me with the exact command

     

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Use bpimagelist with -idonly option to get image id.

    You can use bpimagelist as follows to get all retention levels:

    bpimagelist -backupid <backup_id> -L 

  • sksujeet's avatar
    sksujeet
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Actually duplication retention is what you configured in SLP and no need to check  The SLP will remain on disk with infinity retention unless it get duplicated and SLP will make sure data is get duplicated.

  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    A similar command is bpimmedia -client clientname -d 03/23/2013 00:00:00 -e 03/24/2013 00:00:00

    This gives a start and end date - but remember that duplicates take the time and date of the original backup and not that of when it was actually duplicated

    Hope this helps

    #edit# - way too slow today - LOL!

  • Sunny04's avatar
    Sunny04
    Level 3
    13 years ago

    @Mark_Solutions , you are also correct :)  i used -U / -L to get more readable format