That's interesting. Our catalog was growing like crazy. It was up to about 
90% of the partition at 500GB. We started doing compression - small help. We 
set up the CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND - no help. I called Veritas. They referred me to 
the Technote. I issued the command. Looked like nothing happened. They assured 
me it would work. It apparently kicks something in the background processing on 
one of the Veritas daemons. It took a couple of hours before I noticed that our 
disk space utilization was going down. We now run it twice a week, and it keeps 
our catalog down to about 260 GB.

    Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Fabbro, Andrew P [mailto:Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:12 PM
To: 'bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent DOT com'; sjaffee AT soe.sony DOT com;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] backupid's not expiring naturally


Does not work.  If you run bpimage -cleanup -allclients it will not clean up
all clients.  In fact, it won't do anything - I know because we ran that way
for a while and our catalog grew endlessly.

What you need to do is run bpimage -cleanup -client for each client
individually.  I'm not joking - running 
-allclients would exit (in a second or two) without doing anything, running
for a single client would produce the expected result.  So yes, we had to
write a script that would make a list of clients and run it for each
client...

--
 Drew Fabbro [fabbro.andrew AT cnf DOT com]
 Unix Systems Group
 Desk: 503-450-3374
 Cell: 503-701-0369


-----Original Message-----
From: bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent DOT com [mailto:bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent 
DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:59 PM
To: sjaffee AT soe.sony DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] backupid's not expiring naturally


Sid,

  One thing that can cause this behaviour is a very busy backup server. We
have a master server that runs in excess of 7000 jobs a day. Several times a
week we have to run "bpimage -cleanup -allclients". (technote 236274
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236274.htm ) And we are running
CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND.

      Bryan

Bryan Bahnmiller
Agilent Technologies
bryan_bahnmiller AT agilent DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jaffee, Sid [mailto:sjaffee AT soe.sony DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:37 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] backupid's not expiring naturally


Suddenly a few days ago, backupid's just stopped expiring themselves. Hence
I've had to begin (on a semi-daily basis) manually checking/expiring
backupid's which should of themselves have expired naturally.

What could have caused NetBackup to begin skipping this task? And what can I
do to get NetBackup back to handling this task properly?

  master machine specs
  --------------------
  NetBackup 3.4GA  2000.02.18
  SunOS 5.7 xxxx Generic_106541-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
  solaris 7


comments appreciated,
Sid Jaffee
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