You may want to look at (On Master) /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/admin/log.date
to ensure you are able to talk to all the media servers for cleanup.  If the
master does not communicate properly with each media server and complete
each task, it will terminate and leave the rest of the tasks undone.

Penelope 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Rock [mailto:dave-bu AT graniteweb DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:20 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] image expiration

* Yang Xiao <yxiao2004 AT gmail DOT com> [2004-08-04 09:58]:
> Hi all,
> I have still having problems with backup images not expiring in a 
> timely manner. I have tried # touch 
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND
> 
> # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -cleanup -allclients
> 
> and I ran after 24 hours. 
> bpdbm -consistency
> 
> however, images that are supposed to have expired yesterday are still 
> on the drive. I can expire them with another bpimage -cleanup command, 
> but why isn't this working? Since I have limited amount of disk space 
> to store the images, I really can't wait to see whether they will 
> eventually expire sometime later. Any suggestions will be welcome!

we use
  bpexpdate -backupid <backupid> -d 0 -force to clean up our DSTUs 

--
David Rock
david AT graniteweb DOT com