VTL is just another tape changer for NetBackup. You should use media deassign 
notify + bplabel to relabel unassigned tapes and free allocated space.

V.J.
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[veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] za uživatele O'Connor. Kevin 
(Business Service Centre) [Kevin.OConnor AT ESBI DOT IE]
Odesláno: 5. prosince 2013 15:37
Komu: 'Anurag Sharma'; veritas-bu; veritas-bu2
Předmět: Re: [Veritas-bu] How to know biggest client backup ?

Hi Anurag,

Might be a foolish question but have you taken into account that Netbackup and 
VTL’s don’t talk to each other too well ?
In other words when Netbackup expires an image sitting on a VTL it doesn’t tell 
the VTL to delete the image from the Disk, this means the VTL can fill up very 
quickly and crash it (as we found out in the early days).

Three things need to happen, the VTL drives need to be small, the Max Mounts on 
each media needs to be set low and then you need to run a long erase against 
Scratchpool media (this is the only way to tell VTL’s to delete the images).
After setting the first two you can script the erases to run every couple of 
days and that will reduce the redundant data on the VTL’s.

If you need more info let me know and I can go into a lot more detail and how 
we’re doing it.

Regards
Kevin

Kevin O’Connor | Storage Management | Service Delivery | IT Services | ESB 
Business Service Centre | www.esb.ie<http://www.esb.ie/>

From: Anurag Sharma [mailto:sharma.anurag AT hotmail DOT com]
Sent: 27 November 2013 7:56P
To: veritas-bu; veritas-bu2
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to know biggest client backup ?

Hi All,

My query is simple, I have backups going to VTL then duplicated to tape.

Now VTL is filling up badly and need to move some of backups directly to the 
tapes.

Could any one tell me the easiest way to list top 10 backups ( as per their 
backup size ) on VTL storage unit which I can move directly to the tapes for 
the time being.

Regards
Anurag
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