You're also just changing a reference in the imageDB. Once your image/tape cleanup runs, the images will be removed and the tapes will be moved to scratch if they are now empty and actually came from scratch.
HTH -Tim On 10/1/07, Bobby Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are changing the retention based on the policy. You may have backups > from other policies on the tape with the 2 year retention. > > You may also want to ensure that the tapes "came" from the scratch pool. > They may be showing as not assigned in a pool other than scratch. > > > > > > > Bobby Williams > 2205 Peterson Drive > Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 > 423-296-8200 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of osonder > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 8:37 AM > To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Change retention in all tapes in a policy > > > Hello > > I have a policy with name Users. I now want to change retention to all > tapes > in this policy from 2, to 1 year. (I have a custom retention for 2 years > as > retention level 6) > > I used the command: > bpexpdate -policy Users -recalculate -ret 8 > > Then I get a warning: > Are you SURE you want to recalculate expiration dates on all images that > meet the following criteria: > policy Users > retention will be changed to 8(1 year) > > Continue?(y/n) > > I answers Yes, and the system seems to process for some minutes. > > After this I check if this have moved tapes to Scratch, but no. Beacuse > this > should have realeased a lot of tapes, and moved it to scratch pool. > > Is it something I missing here? Do I have to manually change retention on > every tape? > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu >
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