Booby,
Thank you! It's actually not the valid images
that automaticatlly get removed that I am trying to clean. It's the
invalid image files that get left on disk when jobs fail that I need to find and
clean. The only way I know of is to wait until I get error code 190's when
manually running archival to tape and then finding all *.F1 files without a
corresponding .ds extention. Then I can remove all of those image files
that belong to that invalid image.
From: Bobby Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 7:07 AM
To: Hillman, Eric; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] What command cleans out DSSU's?
First, look at your global setting of "maximum
copies". If it is higher than 2, this will give you more
copies.
Also, go to the storage units area of the GUI and manually
run the staging to make sure that you are up to date.
On the dssu, there are files (all less than 2GB) named
{system_name}_{utime}_F$$ and there are files of "0" size named the same but
with "ds" at the end.
The file with the "ds" at the end are files that NB thinks
it has put on disk. The other files are the backup images named (in the
above format) as the backupid and the fragment number (dsu and dssu are limited
to 2GB fragments).
All NB is doing on the dssu is duplicating the images to
tape. Copy 1 is on disk, copy 2 (thru ...) is on tape. When the
duplication process completes successfully (the way it is designed anyway), the
backupid_fragment.ds file is created to let NB that it can be purged if
necessary.
You can check each file that ends in F1 (fragment 1) and
use bpimagelist to see how many copies you have. If the ds file version of
the file exists, you should show copy 1 or primary to be on the DSSU and copy 2
to be on tape (or wherever you stage to).
If you can verify that you have 2 copies, you can use
"bpexpdate -d 0 -copy 1 -backid {backupid} -force" to expire the copy that is on
disk.
That will clear up the DSSU.
Bobby Williams
2205 Peterson
Drive
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421
423-296-8200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hillman, Eric
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 2:55 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] What command cleans out DSSU's?
We use Disk Staging Storage Units in our Netbackup 5.0 MP5 environment. When jobs fail for whatever reason, the image files created up to that point still stay on disk. At some point, they get removed by Netbackup, but it's not immediate. This used to be a huge problem pre mp5. In MP5, Veritas added better cleanup processes, but they don't go into detail as to how it works. Can someone tell me what process goes through DSSU's looking for invalid images to remove and when that process runs? Also, is it possible to run that process manually at will?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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