netbackup 7.5 bpexpdate

thanks for your reply Can I do it at once on all DP without the specified backup id (s)? it's a lot..

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO43656

No - use can use policy, retention level or schedule. See the link I provided. Please do some test before firing off the command to change them all. bpexpdate can be a dangerous command.

Personally I wold go for a per image id. use can use bpimmedia to retrieve the images located on the  puredisk volume and then process them.

Here is the small script..but u need backup ids :( Put all image ids in extend.txt and pass it as parametrs to command. for i in `cat /temp/extend.txt` do cd /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd ./bpexpdate -backupid $i -d 12/2/2015 -force done Cheers, GS

Hi Thanks for all your replies exported to notepad all backup id's and trying one just to feel the taste... Getting this error: F:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpexpdate -recalculate -backupid 1359311545 -d 12/12/2020 Are you SURE you want to recalculate expiration dates on all images that meet the following criteria: backupid 1359311545 to expire on 12/12/2020 12:00:00 AM Continue?(y/n)y invalid command parameter hmmmmmm Cheers, Itai

Try running without the -recalculate option Martin

got another error F:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpexpdate -backupid 1359311545 -d 12/12/2020 Are you SURE you want to change 1359311545 to expire on 12/12/2020 12:00:00 AM y/n (n)? y an invalid entry was encountered

This is not a backup id: 1359311545

Backup id is client-name_10-digit-number 

Try 'Images on Disk report' to get backup id's.

tnx Marriane got it its a bloxxxy nightmare how can I export from bpimagelist only the image name and number (backup id) without the rest?

You never mentioned your OS? 

If Unix/Linux, you can use bpimmedia combined with 'grep' and 'awk' to just extract image id's.