ContributionsMost RecentMost LikesSolutionsRe: Restore a backup image while the catalog is lost Hi Yogesh, Thanks for your reply. Does this work even if I'm using another server? and other tape library? Regards. Restore a backup image while the catalog is lost Lets say I have tape 01, which I backed up normal files on it. After I safe boxed tape 01, the site crashed. I had the opurtunity to install a new NBU 6.5, but the problem is I dont have my old catalogs. Is there a way to restore the files from tape 01? SolvedRe: Problem with expiry date on tapes and backup images.Thanks, great explanation. Re: Problem with expiry date on tapes and backup images.Thanks for your information. You are right regarding the expiry date. The problem we are facing is that on the 12th day all my tapes are full. So I will be back to tape 1 on 13th day. On 13th day, tape1 is expired, because as you said earlier, the tape expiry is the date of the latest write plus the retention period, which is the 3rd day plus 7 days, so it will expire on 10th day. I'm not understanding this issue, because if the image is not expired, Icannot overwrite it, but when it expires the tape expires too and I cannot write again because it's an expired tape. I need your advice. what happens in such scenario? what do you normally do? do you have to deal with expiry dates for tapes and backup images? Regards. Re: Problem with expiry date on tapes and backup images.Dear Marianne, Thanks for the information. I have more than enough tapes, but my problems is: Lets say I have 4 tapes, and on each tape I can write 3 backup images, on a daily basis with a 7 days retention period. So if I started first backup on beginning of month, The first tape is filled on 3rd of month, and on 12th all the tapes will be full. NBU will go to the first tape back again on 13th, here it will face a problem, because the tape is expired on 3rd + 7 days=10th of month, So I cannot write to the media anymore as it's expired. If I change the expiry date to infinity: bpexpdate -m -d infinity, The expiry date of the backup images on tape is changed also and I cannot write to it again. This is where I'm stuck, I appreciate your advices. Thanks in advance. Re: Problem with expiry date on tapes and backup images.Thanks Frerk, Problem 1: If I change the expiry date with -d 0, Then after writing to the tape what will happen? will the tape expire? am I able to write to it after the retention period of the latest backup image? As I faced, the tape expires after the retention period fo the latest backup image on this tape. Problem 2: This policy has it's own volume group. All of the images are written and expired since a long time. These images are related to the tapes I changed their tapes expiry date to -d inifinty then I tried to change their retention period from infinity by bpexpdate -recalculate -policy policy_name -ret 0 What is normally done as a best pracitice? do you leave the tapes as they are? Regards. Problem with expiry date on tapes and backup images.Dears, Problem 1: When we first got the backup solution, whenever a tape is last mounted, the retention period of the data is added and then I got an expiry date for the tape. I tried to solve this by bpexpdate -m media_id -d infinity, now tapes could be used for writing again. But the new problem is that the backup images on the tapes is infinity. So NBU finds the tapes and knows that the tapes are ready for writing, but all of the backup images on these tapes are not expired yet, so it doesn't write and I get a 96 exit status. Problem 2: I have some backup images I wanted to expire because I'm changing the retention period from 1 month to 1 week. So at first I changes the policy retention period and run the command below: bpexpdate -recalculate -policy policy_name -ret 0 After this I have no logs for any of these backup images, and NBU is not re-writing on their tapes anymore. Please advice and thanks in advance. Solved