Excellent, thanks for posting the solution as well!

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think I got the solution. I ran the following command and found that the
> expired backups were deleted.
> bpimage -cleanup -client <clientname>
> It seems that since our backups were going 24*7 ,cleaning of databases
> were not happening. I did for one client and it deleted the expired
> backups.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Ratheesh R Das
> M I N D S P E E D Technologies
> Storage and Backup | 866-772-4252 ext 2301
> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
>
>
>
>
> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
> 11/19/2007 06:57 PM
>
> To
> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
> cc
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject
> Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5
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>
> You did not run the bpmedialist command though? I was wondering if your
> media was frozen.
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am facing this problem with both disks and tapes. We are mostly using
>> disk backup and I have checked expiration of each policy also. In the
>> backup and restore window, it clearly mentions the expiration date, but
>> the image is still there and I can restore from it also. As a result our
>> disk space is getting full.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Ratheesh R Das
>> M I N D S P E E D Technologies
>> Storage and Backup | 866-772-4252 ext 2301
>> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
>> 11/19/2007 06:22 PM
>>
>> To
>> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
>> cc
>> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject
>> Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5
>>
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>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I am sure it was not happening earlier. I think this problem started in
>>> the range Nov 1-3, because the backups before it has been expired.We
>> didnt
>>> do any changes as such.
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>
>>> Ratheesh R Das
>>> M I N D S P E E D Technologies
>>> Storage and Backup | 866-772-4252 ext 2301
>>> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
>>> 11/19/2007 06:11 PM
>>>
>>> To
>>> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
>>> cc
>>> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>> Subject
>>> Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5
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>>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Justin,
>>>> We have daily,weekly and monthly backups going on to disk and
> quarterly
>>>> and yearly to tapes. I can see that starting from November 1-3 it is
>>>> showing problems.Earlier it was working fine. We have only one
>>>> master/media server.I am attaching the bp.conf for your reference.
>>>>
>>>> SERVER = npbextricity1
>>>> CLIENT_NAME = npbextricity1
>>>> LOCKED_FILE_ACTION = SKIP
>>>> CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 300
>>>> CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT = 3600
>>>> BPSTART_TIMEOUT = 300
>>>> BPEND_TIMEOUT = 300
>>>> # KEEP_DAYS = 7
>>>> VERBOSE = 0
>>>> DASHBOARD_PORT_WINDOW = 0 0
>>>> VAULT_VERBOSE = 0
>>>> BPTM_VERBOSE = 5
>>>> BPSCHED_VERBOSE = 3
>>>> BPRD_VERBOSE = 0
>>>> BPBRM_VERBOSE = 5
>>>> # BPCD_VERBOSE = 5
>>>> CLIENT_RESERVED_PORT_WINDOW = 923 1023
>>>> BPDM_VERBOSE = -1
>>>> SERVER_SENDS_MAIL = YES
>>>> SLAVE_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 30
>>>> WAIT_IN_QUEUE = YES
>>>> QUEUE_ON_ERROR = YES
>>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = JOBID 5 true
>>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = TYPE 4 true
>>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = STATE 5 true
>>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = STATUS 6 true
>>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = POLICY 6 true
>>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = SCHEDULE 8 true
>>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = CLIENT 6 true
>>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = STARTED 7 true
>>>> CONNECT_OPTIONS = b2b 1 1
>>>> CONNECT_OPTIONS = b2b-b 0 1
>>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = DBR
>>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = TAR
>>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = CPIO
>>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = ANSI
>>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = AOS/VS
>>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = MTF1
>>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = RS-MTF1
>>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = BE-MTF1
>>>
>>> You do not have anything strange or incorrect from what I can see, what
>>> patch level are you currently at with 4.5?  Have you considered
>> upgrading
>>> to 5.1x or 6.0?  If you open a case with Symantec that is probably the
>>> first thing they are going to ask you to do.
>>>
>>> Did this just start happening or have you been noticing it for a while
>>> now?
>>>
>>> Can you determine what changed in your environment when this problem
>>> started to occur?
>>>
>>> Justin.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Can you narrow down the tapes to a particular volume pool that is having
>> the problem? Or are _NONE_ of the tapes expiring?
>>
>> Also, what does the following command say:
>>
>> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedialist | grep -B1 FROZEN
>>
>>
>> Justin.
>>
>>
>
>
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