yes, you can do that..

for that you need to have the image/backup id list or Media id were the images located. 

use the bpexpdate -recaulcate -b <backup id> -d MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS 

where -b is the backup id/Image id of the job that you want to chage

-d is the date that you want to keep.

for more options please check below. T/N

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...

thanks for your reply

Can I do it at once on all DP without the specified backup id (s)? it's a lot..

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO43656

No - use can use policy, retention level or schedule. See the link I provided. Please do some test before firing off the command to change them all. bpexpdate can be a dangerous command.

Personally I wold go for a per image id. use can use bpimmedia to retrieve the images located on the  puredisk volume and then process them.

Here is the small script..but u need backup ids :(

Put all image ids in extend.txt and pass it as parametrs to command.

for i in `cat /temp/extend.txt`
do
cd /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
./bpexpdate -backupid $i -d 12/2/2015 -force
done

Cheers,
GS

Hi

Thanks for all your replies

exported to notepad all backup id's and trying one just to feel the taste...

Getting this error:

F:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpexpdate -recalculate -backupid 1359311545 -d 12/12/2020
Are you SURE you want to recalculate expiration dates on all images
that meet the following criteria:
backupid 1359311545

to expire on 12/12/2020 12:00:00 AM
Continue?(y/n)y
invalid command parameter

hmmmmmm

Cheers,

Itai

Try running without the -recalculate option

Martin

got another error

F:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpexpdate -backupid 1359311545 -d 12/12/2020
Are you SURE you want to change 1359311545
to expire on 12/12/2020 12:00:00 AM y/n (n)? y
an invalid entry was encountered

This is not a backup id: 1359311545

Backup id is client-name_10-digit-number 

Try 'Images on Disk report' to get backup id's.

tnx Marriane got it
its a bloxxxy nightmare

how can I export from bpimagelist only the image name and number (backup id) without the rest?

You never mentioned your OS? 

If Unix/Linux, you can use bpimmedia combined with 'grep' and 'awk' to just extract image id's.

win 2008

Try "bpimagelist -idonly".

Or, search in GUI, select images, [Edit]-[Copy], paste into Notepad or so, and save as text. Then run like below(assuming saved as C:\test.txt).

C:\> set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd
C:\> FOR /F "tokens=1" %i in (C:\test.txt) DO bpexpdate -backupid %i -d 12/12/2020 23:59:59 -force

the -idonly is great, but shows only new images, thanks anyway

Add a start date to bpimagelist with '-d mm/dd/yyyy'

thanks again

Itai

done.. :)