You might want to include a copy number if you use that disk STU as a
staging area for a later duplication to tape.

Your command as written deletes all copies of that image.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of David Rock
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:20 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