Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5

With disk under 6.0 and 6.5, its different, you can set thresholds and the 
like, back with 4.5 I am not sure, can anyone else comment on that?

Justin.

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

> Hi,
> I just wanted to clear one more doubt. In case of tapes, I know that once
> all the backups in the tape are expired, netbackup will automatically
> expire it. Similarly if the backup is going on a disk, will that space be
> reused by Netbackup?I am new to disk backup.
> 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
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> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
> 11/19/2007 07:15 PM
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> Excellent, thanks for posting the solution as well!
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> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
>> 11/19/2007 06:57 PM
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>> You did not run the bpmedialist command though? I was wondering if your
>> media was frozen.
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>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
>>> 11/19/2007 06:22 PM
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>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>>>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
>>>> 11/19/2007 06:11 PM
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>>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>
>>> 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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