Hi,
A retension period of a full backup image taken in Sepetmeber this year has been changed from one year to 3 months, but I found its expiration data doesn't change based on this new retension period.
Retension period- 3 months
expiration date/time - 10/19/2017
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Hello,
this should work. Please provide exact commands/interfaces you have used for retention period change and then for its verification.
The only thing which came to me is that multiple copies exist and retention has been changed on one copy level only , not on backupid level.
Regards
Michal
I agree - show us output of bpimagelist for this image-id with -L option and exact command that you have issued.
Many thanks for replying my post. I didn't change it by myself. I found out the change this morning as we have a request about it. Normally the retension period is one year for this type full backup. Please see the output of bpimaglist for this backup id.
I'm pretty sure that somebody changed retention period for the policy, noticed that it was incorrect and changed expiration time backy to ~ 1 year manually. Look at the expiration time, it's 00:00:00. As for me administrator forgot (didn't want) to set correct time and set date only :)
Retention Level: 3 months (5) Backup Time: 21/09/2016 13:19:14 (1474460354) Elapsed Time: 1103 second(s) Expiration Time: 19/10/2017 00:00:00 (1508367600)
You can check admin log to see if somebody run bpexpdate for the backupid.
That is where I am confused. Normally if the retenion level is changed, then expiration time should be changed automatically, too according to this new retension level. If the expiration time is changed, then the retneions level will be changed accordingly.
Is my understanding correct? I will check admin log later.
>Is my understanding correct?
No, it doesn't work like this.
NetBackup has Retention Levels (RT) defined in the configuration (some of them are pre-defined and other can be customized). You can select RT for each Schedule. After successful backup your image has RT and expiration date that were set up during the backup. If you've modified RT in the policy after the backup then NetBackup wouldn't recalculate expiration date and change RT for image it's already done. You can only modify it manually via bpexpdate command.
