One of our cell managers is running DP 7.0 and I want to save tapes / backups that were created on particular dates for longer than the default 8 weeks. What I started doing is to move them to a seperate media pool but then realized that moving them is not going to change the catalog and data protection dates.
What I would like to prevent is to have to rebuild the index in the case that we have to restore something. So I was thinking that if I can at least change the catalog protection date I would save a huge amount of time. At the moment none of the backup sets span more than one physical tape as half of the servers gets backed up to one drive and the other half to another drive. So I have two backup sets each on a seperate tape.
Is there a way for me to add x number of weeks to the catalog protection date and can the data protection date be updated as well.
Any ideas would be welcome.
Thanks,
Dirk
