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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It’s not just a Unix thing. It’s
anyone who measures time the way Unix measures time, which is the number of
seconds since January 1, 1970. A 32-bit number can only count to
2038. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>NBU counts that way, which is why all the
dates are in this weird number format (09838938733) unless you specify -U. Those
are the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. And if you count using a
32-bit number, you can only count to 2038.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>By the time we get to 2038, we will have
all switched to 64-bit stuff, and NBU will have reverse engineered how to reset
the dates to whatever date you can count to with a 64-bit number. ;)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It’s Y2K part 2, but much easier to
solve, I believe.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> veritas-bu-bounces@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>WEAVER, Simon (external)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 18, 2007
9:50 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Ellis, Jason';
Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Veritas-bu] I guess
infinity isn't forever...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><i><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Jason</span></font></i></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><i><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Well the
date is identical to what I see on the windows master Server - 19-01-2038
:-)</span></font></i></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><i><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Veritas
configured date perhaps? Life cycle of OS time perhaps?</span></font></i></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><i><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;font-weight:bold'>either
way, I wont wanna touch this product at that time of my life :-)</span></font></i></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
veritas-bu-bounces@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ellis, Jason<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 18, 2007
5:08 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Veritas-bu] I guess
infinity isn't forever...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>So I need to change the expiration date on a bunch of
images to infinity (for legal reasons). I plan to write a script to parse a
text file taken from a catalog search for the backupids of the needed images. I
tested out changing the expiration date of an image to infinity manually first.
When I ran a bpimagelist and converted the ctime for the expiration date I got
back an expiration of “Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 2038.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>My question is: Is this is just some random date that
NetBackup assigns to images that are never supposed to expire?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Below is the bpexpdate command I ran:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>bpexpdate –backupid pasnas01a_1191283460 –d
infinity -force<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
Jason Ellis</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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