I use DataDomain restorers as my primary backup system and then duplicate the images from the restorers to tape. The backup images residing on the restorers have a retention period of 1 month and I duplicate them to tape using vaulting policies that create secondary copies with either a two month or four month retention with the disk based image remaining the primary copy. For the last month I have noticed a problem with NetBackup not deleting images off of my restorers after they've expired. I can select a specific backup image and run bpimagelist against it and NetBackup tells where the files are and cheerfully informs me that the disk based image should have expired three weeks ago. When I check the files listing from bpimagelist I find that the disk based files still exist, even though they should be dead and gone. There is an option in vaulting to delete disk based images X number of hours after they are duplicated to tape and I could set this to 720 hours (1 month) and take care of the problem that way. However I shouldn't need to enable this and really don't want to. NetBackup knows that these images have a one month retention and should damn well be expiring them without me having to tell it to. When I started diving further into this problem I noticed that NetBackup was also not deleting some old tape based images either. I can get backup IDs out of the /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images directory and run bpimagelist against them and again, NetBackup cheerfully informs me that these backups should have expired weeks ago. Has anyone else had problems like this with NetBackup 6.0? Thanks, Jamie Jamison
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