Enterprise Vault Retention jobs 7 months or older

[crscsy]

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!

[sdo]

How many backup clients are affected?

[crscsy]

Unfortunately we are talking about 100s give or take

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

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]

Thank you Marianne!

I guess the next step is seeing if this can be run with an answer file (The output of bpmedialist)

Just alot of media ID's to do 1 by 1 :)

[crscsy]

Upon running this command I recieve invalad command usage

bpexpdate -recalculate -ret 7 -m 0001L2

What am i missing?

[Marianne]

Are these images under SLP control?