I got really weird problems. Even we scheduled cron job for command "bpimage -cleanup -allclients" yesterday and it got run once every 6 hours, but I still saw expired (disk-to-disk) backups on the media servers. I even ran the command manually today and the expired backups didn't get removed at all.
Any ideas? Thanks, Rongsheng Ed Wilts wrote: > 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