Re: [Veritas-bu] Clean up expired backups

The failed pretty regularly.   The larger the catalog and the larger the
images, the more likely it is that a backup will fail.  We gave up with
background processing but if you can squeak in a run every now and then
manually, you're probably better off thannothing.  I can't remember the
exact error message though.

        .../Ed
--
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT orrg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
> bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Rongsheng Fang
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:48 AM
> To: Ed Wilts
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clean up expired backups
> 
> 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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