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

2007-11-19 07:58:31
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5
From: ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:11:58 +0530

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


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 06:00 PM

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







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

> Hi,
> Retention is set correct. For daily it is set to 14 days and weekly one
> month and for monthly it is 3 months. I had a backup on 11/03/2007 and it
> is showing the expiration date as 11/17/2007. But the image is not deleted
> and I can still restore from it.
>
> 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 05:51 PM
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> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
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>> Hi Guys,
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>> I have netbackup 4.5 running in solaris. I am now seeing that my backups
>> are not expiring even after the expiration date and I can even restore
>> from them. Pls suggest what can be the problem.
>>
>> 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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> What is the retention set to in the polices?
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> Justin.
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In this case, you may have other images with different retentions set to
the tape; however that would not explain why you can still restore from
something that should have expired on 11/17/2007.  Is your date set right
on all of your servers?  What does your bp.conf file look like on the
master server?

Justin.

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