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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Using the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
  4. Auditing WORM retention changes
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Auditing WORM retention changes

Use the following procedure to view a full history of the WORM configuration changes, including changes to the retention policy and to backup images.

Note:

You can also run the catdbutil command in the shell to audit the retention changes. This command does not appear in the shell menu, but you can run it directly. However, the arguments for the command cannot include path separators (/). See About the NetBackup command line options to configure immutable and indelible data.

To audit retention changes

  1. Open an SSH session to the server as the msdpadm user, or for NetBackup Flex Scale, as an appliance administrator.
  2. Run the following command:

    retention policy audit

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