The failed pretty regularly. The larger the catalog and the larger the images, the more likely it is that a backup will fail. We gave up with background processing but if you can squeak in a run every now and then manually, you're probably better off thannothing. I can't remember the exact error message though.
.../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rongsheng Fang > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:48 AM > To: Ed Wilts > Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clean up expired backups > > Thanks Ed! How often did the backups fail in your environment when the > background cleanup process was enabled? What kind of error messages did > you see from such failures? > > Rongsheng > > Ed Wilts wrote: > >> We are running NetBackup 5.0 MP7 and it has been having problems > >> cleaning up the old/expired backups. I looked around and people > >> suggested using the following to address the issue: > >> > >> # touch /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND > >> # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -cleanup -allclients > >> > >> I also saw people using "bpexpdate -deassignempty -force". > >> > >> Since our backups run 24x7 CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND may not find a window > to > >> run at all. So I am thinking to schedule a cron job to run 'bpimage > >> -cleanup -allclients' daily. My questions is: will "bpimage -cleanup > >> -allclients" clean up all the old/expired backups which in our case > are > >> disk-to-disk backups on several different media servers? > > > > Yes, it will clean up on the media servers. HOWEVER, there are known > issues > > with the background cleanup process and there is a potential that > your > > backups will fail. We ran into it in our environment. > > > > The best alternative is to upgrade to 6.0 - this will cleanup > properly. > > > > .../Ed > > > > -- > > Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD > > Mounds View, MN, USA > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu