Thanks Ed! How often did the backups fail in your environment when the 
background cleanup process was enabled? What kind of error messages did 
you see from such failures?

Rongsheng

Ed Wilts wrote:
>> We are running NetBackup 5.0 MP7 and it has been having problems
>> cleaning up the old/expired backups. I looked around and people
>> suggested using the following to address the issue:
>>
>> # touch /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND
>> # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -cleanup -allclients
>>
>> I also saw people using "bpexpdate -deassignempty -force".
>>
>> Since our backups run 24x7 CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND may not find a window to
>> run at all. So I am thinking to schedule a cron job to run 'bpimage
>> -cleanup -allclients' daily. My questions is: will "bpimage -cleanup
>> -allclients" clean up all the old/expired backups which in our case are
>> disk-to-disk backups on several different media servers?
> 
> Yes, it will clean up on the media servers.  HOWEVER, there are known issues
> with the background cleanup process and there is a potential that your
> backups will fail.  We ran into it in our environment.
> 
> The best alternative is to upgrade to 6.0 - this will cleanup properly.
> 
>       .../Ed
> 
> --
> Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD
> Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT orrg
> 
> 
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