I'd like to know the expire date in specific volume pool

[HowardYu]

Dear all,

I saw a command "bpimagelist -U -backupid BACKUPID", what is backupid?

And what I need as below:

Backed Up Expires Files KB C Sched Type Policy
---------------- ---------- -------- -------- - ------------ ------------
08/23/2012 16:12 11/24/2012 36420 22046257 N Full Backup POLICY

Actually I'd like to know how to like expire date in specific volume pool, ex: weekly pool

Thanks.

[RamNagalla · Accepted solution]

Backup ID is the reference of the each successfull backup that happend in the netbackup stored in netbckup images data base for future referece.. it stored in netbackup database for the retenction that is defined in policy.

backup ID containns 2 parts

Client_ctime

ex:-

scoobydoo_1054264097

scoobydoo is the client name

1054264097 is the ctime of the backup when it happend.

volume pools does not have the expire dates but the volumes having the data in volume pools have the data expire data

that you can see in the GUI--> volume pools -->data expire date( in left side coloum , where it lists all the volumes of specific pool)

[HowardYu]

Hi, it's useful, thanks.

ex: my client is Test01, ctime is 123456

the backup id = Test01_123456, right?

Where I can get ctime 123456?

Thanks.

[Marianne]

You can also use the Reports section of the GUI. 
Expand Tape Reports, select Tape Summary report, select Verbose tick-box and run the report.

I cannot remember if it gives you pool names, but if you have a Scratch pool and expired tapes automatically goes back to Scratch, the current pool name should not matter - just expiration date.

[Andy_Welburn]

The backupid is created by NetBackup as a unique label, as it were, to hold or reference all information pertinent to a specific clients backup.

Made up of the client name and the 'unix time' (ctime) of the start of the backup.

You can see this by converting the ctime to an actual time as follows:

bpdbm -ctime 1054264097
1054264097 = Fri May 30 04:08:17 2003

ctime - represents the time in seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970)

[Marianne]

You can find backup id with -L  or -idonly option to bpimagelist.
e.g.
bpimagelist -client <name> -d <start-date> -e <end-date> -L

bpimagelist -client <name> -d <start-date> -e <end-date> -idonly

[HowardYu]

Undertood, thanks all.