We also use  bpimage -cleanup -allclients   with CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND - it
works okay.
We are running a mixture of 3.4 & 4.5 on Solaris 2.6.

If you have any corruption in the NB database, that could case the cleanup
to either
fail or hang. After you initial the cleanup, truss the bpdbm process that is
doing the
cleanup and see if it consistently is failing on the same client/image.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent DOT com [mailto:bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent 
DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:40 PM
To: Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com; sjaffee AT soe.sony DOT com;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] backupid's not expiring naturally


  That's interesting. Our catalog was growing like crazy. It was up to about
90% of the partition at 500GB. We started doing compression - small help. We
set up the CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND - no help. I called Veritas. They referred me
to the Technote. I issued the command. Looked like nothing happened. They
assured me it would work. It apparently kicks something in the background
processing on one of the Veritas daemons. It took a couple of hours before I
noticed that our disk space utilization was going down. We now run it twice
a week, and it keeps our catalog down to about 260 GB.

    Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Fabbro, Andrew P [mailto:Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:12 PM
To: 'bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent DOT com'; sjaffee AT soe.sony DOT com;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] backupid's not expiring naturally


Does not work.  If you run bpimage -cleanup -allclients it will not clean up
all clients.  In fact, it won't do anything - I know because we ran that way
for a while and our catalog grew endlessly.

What you need to do is run bpimage -cleanup -client for each client
individually.  I'm not joking - running 
-allclients would exit (in a second or two) without doing anything, running
for a single client would produce the expected result.  So yes, we had to
write a script that would make a list of clients and run it for each
client...

--
 Drew Fabbro [fabbro.andrew AT cnf DOT com]
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 Desk: 503-450-3374
 Cell: 503-701-0369


-----Original Message-----
From: bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent DOT com [mailto:bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent 
DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:59 PM
To: sjaffee AT soe.sony DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] backupid's not expiring naturally


Sid,

  One thing that can cause this behaviour is a very busy backup server. We
have a master server that runs in excess of 7000 jobs a day. Several times a
week we have to run "bpimage -cleanup -allclients". (technote 236274
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236274.htm ) And we are running
CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND.

      Bryan

Bryan Bahnmiller
Agilent Technologies
bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jaffee, Sid [mailto:sjaffee AT soe.sony DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:37 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] backupid's not expiring naturally


Suddenly a few days ago, backupid's just stopped expiring themselves. Hence
I've had to begin (on a semi-daily basis) manually checking/expiring
backupid's which should of themselves have expired naturally.

What could have caused NetBackup to begin skipping this task? And what can I
do to get NetBackup back to handling this task properly?

  master machine specs
  --------------------
  NetBackup 3.4GA  2000.02.18
  SunOS 5.7 xxxx Generic_106541-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
  solaris 7


comments appreciated,
Sid Jaffee
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