This is what I am looking for. We have had nothing but useless junk from Command Central and Advanced Reporter and I have no faith in the latest version Backup Reporting. Does Aptare manage to show you when the last backup was run successfully? In this case we overwrote the tape so importing was not an option.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Dunham Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:38 PM To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions > As far as I know once images expire they are deleted from the Netbackup > catalog - as a result (and as you state) it is not possible to unexpire > images within the catalog via bpexpdate. The only option is to manually > import the images off the tapes, assuming you know what tapes have the > images you need and they haven't yet been overwritten. If you are able > to do the import then you can assign whatever retention you want. Yes. I think he's looking for something like the default behavior of EMC Networker, where the image's expiration is suspended if there haven't been any later successful backups. So not recover (via import) after the fact, but prevent the last backup from being expired at all. I can think of how using some scheduled scripts could get pretty close. Examine the catalog for the last full backup of all the machine/filesystem. If it's approaching expiration, push the expiration date back. As long as the script runs (successfully) at least once within the "pushback" period, it'll prevent the expiration. Finding the image corresponding to a particular filesystem isn't necessarily trivial though. And you really need to track by filesystem. If the machine has done recent successful full backups, but one filesystem failed each time, you'd like to delay that filesystem's expiration. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu