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Backup on Disk and duplicate on tape

Kunalgoel
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Hi Team,

I have taken backup on disk with one week retention and manually duplicate that backup on tape with same 1 week retention.

After that i have manually expired primary copy from disk but secondary copy also expired from tapeas both have same backup id .

is there a way to only expired primary copy and retain secondary copy for future?

Further, if i used SLP for duplication then in that case it will create same backup id for both primary and secondary copy?

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Michal_Mikulik1
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Hello,

see bpexpdate command. It has -copy parameter which can be used with <backupid> keyword.

Yes with SLP you will get the same backupid for all copies. And you can also use -copy parameter with these copies.

Regards

Michal

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Michal_Mikulik1
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Hello,

see bpexpdate command. It has -copy parameter which can be used with <backupid> keyword.

Yes with SLP you will get the same backupid for all copies. And you can also use -copy parameter with these copies.

Regards

Michal

sdo
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@Kunalgoel a word of caution... lest you learn the hardest of the hard ways... here it is : be careful with the copy ID number.  The copy ID number is an arbritary concept/number.  The use of any particuar/given copy number does not necessarily imply actual copy storage location.  So, ... always - and I do mean *always* - check the bpimagelist and make sure you know which copy is on which storage unit before you expire anything.  HTH.