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[Veritas-bu] Netbackup expiry of rman backups with infinite retention period

2006-03-23 09:39:00
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup expiry of rman backups with infinite retention period
From: andrew.x.smith AT jpmchase DOT com (andrew.x.smith AT jpmchase DOT com)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:39:00 +0000
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Is this the command ur after?

The change ... delete command removes references to a backup piece, 
datafile copy, or archivelog from the control file and recovery catalog. 
It physically deletes the file. This command works with or without a 
recovery catalog.






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23/03/2006 14:10

 
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Hi,
I have recently set-up some Oracle rman backups with Netbackup 4.5 on 
Solaris.
The retention period in the policy is set to infinite for both the 
automatic and application backup schedules. I wanted to check that 
Netbackup would clean up the backups when I obsolete them in rman. But 
having done the obsolete in rman I have found that Netbackup has not 
removed the backup images from the tapes, even though they are gone from 
the rman catalog. I tried running "bpimage -cleanup -client <name>" but 
the bpdbm log showed that nothing was removed.

There was an oddity with the Netbackup configuration on the client, when 
the original backup was made, the bp.conf contained the wrong client name. 
Could this be causing a problem, now that the client name has been 
changed?

Am I on the wrong track here? According to the manual when rman deletes a 
backup-piece Netbackup should get rid of it regardless of the retention 
period. Does anyone know of a way I can sort this out, so that when rman 
deletes the backup, Netbackup does as well?

Thanks

Pete

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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Is this the command ur after?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The change ... delete command removes 
references to a backup piece, datafile copy, or archivelog from the control 
file and recovery catalog. It physically deletes the file. This command works 
with or without a recovery catalog.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Hi,<br>
I have recently set-up some Oracle rman backups with Netbackup 4.5 on 
Solaris.<br>
The retention period in the policy is set to infinite for both the automatic 
and application backup schedules. I wanted to check that Netbackup would clean 
up the backups when I obsolete them in rman. But having done the obsolete in 
rman I have found that Netbackup has not removed the backup images from the 
tapes, even though they are gone from the rman catalog. I tried running 
&quot;bpimage -cleanup -client &lt;name&gt;&quot; but the bpdbm log showed that 
nothing was removed.<br>
<br>
There was an oddity with the Netbackup configuration on the client, when the 
original backup was made, the bp.conf contained the wrong client name. Could 
this be causing a problem, now that the client name has been changed?<br>
<br>
Am I on the wrong track here? According to the manual when rman deletes a 
backup-piece Netbackup should get rid of it regardless of the retention period. 
Does anyone know of a way I can sort this out, so that when rman deletes the 
backup, Netbackup does as well?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
Pete<br>
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