I run several scripts that manually prune my DSSUs and DSUs of unwanted
images.  Forget the catalog, just run bpexpdate with the image switch
and use the <server>_<image num> directly on any file you find on the
drive.   Make sure you drop the extension.  All my scripts parse the
directory directly, I don't even bother querying the catalog first.  You
will get an error something like "entry does not exist" if you try to
expire an image that does not exist in the catalog.

-Jonathan 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Crowey
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:12 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disc Staging Area Full


Thanks fellas.

I tried the catalogue method first - and while it did return some
images, nowhere near as many as I know are in the disc staging areas.
But nonetheless, I expired those.

As I mentioned earlier, this came about through a synthetic backup snafu
- and first stage of fixing the problem I just cancelled the
differential job writing to disc; this couldn't have orphaned the images
on disc could it?

Or do I have to now manually find/identify the old images and use
bpexpdate as suggested?

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