I have had this happen to me. The file system log corrupted and the disk
was returning I/O errors, so there were partial images on the DSSU, but
it purged the associated catalog data when the backup failed.

Try the bpexpdate to expire the images first. If NetBackup tells you the
image doesn't exist, then you'll have to delete the files manually. This
won't confuse NetBackup since there's no corresponding image info in the
catalog about these files.

Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy [mailto:anepomn AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:33 AM
To: dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How to regain disk space from failed backup to
DSU

Dave,
Thank you for your answer.

A) Don't think I can expire files from failed backup - I think that
they never made it to the NetBackup database (because the backup
failed :) ) . At least I don't see files from failed backups in
"bpimmedia -L" output.

B) I am afraid that removing those files can confuse NetBackup.

I am looking for the way to tell NetBackup "do garbage removal now"
(this is NetBackup 3.4).

Thank you,
Aleksandr

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Dave Markham <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net>
wrote:
> Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Gurus,
> > My apologies - it is probably very simple question.
> >
> > Files from failed backup to Disk Storage Unit are taking space
(which
> > I need immediately for other backups). How I can reclaim the space
> > back?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Aleksandr
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
> >
>  Try expiring the image or crudely just deleting the image files from
the
> disk location
>
>  D
>


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