If tapes are frozen, are the images expired off of disk or does that only 
occur when the tapes are unfrozen?

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:

> Hi,
> I am facing this problem with both disks and tapes. We are mostly using
> disk backup and I have checked expiration of each policy also. In the
> backup and restore window, it clearly mentions the expiration date, but
> the image is still there and I can restore from it also. As a result our
> disk space is getting full.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Ratheesh R Das
> M I N D S P E E D Technologies
> Storage and Backup | 866-772-4252 ext 2301
> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
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> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
> 11/19/2007 06:22 PM
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> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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> Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5
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> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I am sure it was not happening earlier. I think this problem started in
>> the range Nov 1-3, because the backups before it has been expired.We
> didnt
>> do any changes as such.
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Ratheesh R Das
>> M I N D S P E E D Technologies
>> Storage and Backup | 866-772-4252 ext 2301
>> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
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>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
>> 11/19/2007 06:11 PM
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>> To
>> ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com
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>> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject
>> Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not expiring in netbackup 4.5
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>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, ratheesh.das AT mindspeed DOT com wrote:
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>>> Hi Justin,
>>> We have daily,weekly and monthly backups going on to disk and quarterly
>>> and yearly to tapes. I can see that starting from November 1-3 it is
>>> showing problems.Earlier it was working fine. We have only one
>>> master/media server.I am attaching the bp.conf for your reference.
>>>
>>> SERVER = npbextricity1
>>> CLIENT_NAME = npbextricity1
>>> LOCKED_FILE_ACTION = SKIP
>>> CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 300
>>> CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT = 3600
>>> BPSTART_TIMEOUT = 300
>>> BPEND_TIMEOUT = 300
>>> # KEEP_DAYS = 7
>>> VERBOSE = 0
>>> DASHBOARD_PORT_WINDOW = 0 0
>>> VAULT_VERBOSE = 0
>>> BPTM_VERBOSE = 5
>>> BPSCHED_VERBOSE = 3
>>> BPRD_VERBOSE = 0
>>> BPBRM_VERBOSE = 5
>>> # BPCD_VERBOSE = 5
>>> CLIENT_RESERVED_PORT_WINDOW = 923 1023
>>> BPDM_VERBOSE = -1
>>> SERVER_SENDS_MAIL = YES
>>> SLAVE_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 30
>>> WAIT_IN_QUEUE = YES
>>> QUEUE_ON_ERROR = YES
>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = JOBID 5 true
>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = TYPE 4 true
>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = STATE 5 true
>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = STATUS 6 true
>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = POLICY 6 true
>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = SCHEDULE 8 true
>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = CLIENT 6 true
>>> BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = STARTED 7 true
>>> CONNECT_OPTIONS = b2b 1 1
>>> CONNECT_OPTIONS = b2b-b 0 1
>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = DBR
>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = TAR
>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = CPIO
>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = ANSI
>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = AOS/VS
>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = MTF1
>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = RS-MTF1
>>> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = BE-MTF1
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>> You do not have anything strange or incorrect from what I can see, what
>> patch level are you currently at with 4.5?  Have you considered
> upgrading
>> to 5.1x or 6.0?  If you open a case with Symantec that is probably the
>> first thing they are going to ask you to do.
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>> Did this just start happening or have you been noticing it for a while
>> now?
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>> Can you determine what changed in your environment when this problem
>> started to occur?
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>> Justin.
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> Can you narrow down the tapes to a particular volume pool that is having
> the problem? Or are _NONE_ of the tapes expiring?
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> Also, what does the following command say:
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> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedialist | grep -B1 FROZEN
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> Justin.
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