On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:40:15 -0400, Penelope Carr
<penelope.carr AT veritas DOT com> wrote:
> You may want to look at (On Master) /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/admin/log.date
> to ensure you are able to talk to all the media servers for cleanup.  If the
> master does not communicate properly with each media server and complete
> each task, it will terminate and leave the rest of the tasks undone.
> 
> Penelope
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rock [mailto:dave-bu AT graniteweb DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:20 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] image expiration
> 
> * Yang Xiao <yxiao2004 AT gmail DOT com> [2004-08-04 09:58]:
> > Hi all,
> > I have still having problems with backup images not expiring in a
> > timely manner. I have tried # touch
> > /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND
> >
> > # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -cleanup -allclients
> >
> > and I ran after 24 hours.
> > bpdbm -consistency
> >
> > however, images that are supposed to have expired yesterday are still
> > on the drive. I can expire them with another bpimage -cleanup command,
> > but why isn't this working? Since I have limited amount of disk space
> > to store the images, I really can't wait to see whether they will
> > eventually expire sometime later. Any suggestions will be welcome!
> 
> we use
>  bpexpdate -backupid <backupid> -d 0 -force to clean up our DSTUs
> 
> --
> David Rock
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Hi,
Thank you all for the responses. I think crontab the bpimage -cleaunup
-allclients command is what I really needed. I was suggested the
command after I got tired of using bpimmedia to check for expired
images then use bpexpdate to rmove the copies from snap drive storage.
My question was why wasn't this process automatic? You said that it
could be that the scheduler was not started due to constant
activities, but that's not really the case, there are extended periods
that nothing was running on NBU and still. So the question is still
why?
Some of you also suggested looking into the log for errors, but first,
I'm only concerned with the images on disk, so there isn't a problem
with the tape medias, and second, there was no errors.

Thanks again.

Yang