I got really weird problems. Even we scheduled cron job for command
"bpimage -cleanup -allclients" yesterday and it got run once every 6
hours, but I still saw expired (disk-to-disk) backups on the media
servers. I even ran the command manually today and the expired backups
didn't get removed at all.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rongsheng
Ed Wilts wrote:
> 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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