> Step3. Go to catalog & do the import Phase 1 & phase
> 2. This will retain the images & the media available
> any time for restore action.
In fact, when you import expired images, they are added back to the images catalog for a duration that starts at the date of the importation and lasts until the Retention Period that was orignilay used for the backup.
Consider the retention period as indexes from 0 to 24 : they ar written on the images metadata on the tapes. When you import an image made with a retention of 2 weeks (Ret Period Index 1), on a server where you have modified the default Retention Level to have the Index 1 pointing on ... 267 days, for example, the image imported will last 267 days from the date of the importation.
After that delay, it's expired 'again' and the media shown IMPORTED will then be expired, unassigned and back to Scratch.
(if the expired image was on a media with still active images, the importation of the images does not create the flag IMPORTED on the media, because it's already in the media database, but the expiration date of the media might still be modified by this second youth.)