Hello everyone,
I hope you can help me out. Several months ago, my company added a new MSA disk pool to replace our aging DataDomain disk pool. All backup policies were reconfigured to stop using DataDomain and, originally, the usage on DataDomain dropped as backups aged and expired. The problem is that the Data Domain usage only dropped to 14% and has been stuck there for over a month. When I go into the NetBackup GUI (version 7.1) and navigate to "Media and Device Management"> Devices > Disk Pools, it displays 2.5677 TB used oiut of 18.1005 TB total (about 14%).
I'm not sure why these backups are not expiring. After doing some reading, I ran the following from D:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd on my NetBackup admin host:
bpimmedia -L -stype DiskPool -dp dd670 Backup-ID Policy ScheduleType Copy Frag Expires DiskType DiskPoolName DiskVolume StorageServerName ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- APP-SRV29_1357349450 APP_SRV29 FULL 1 1 1360027850 DiskPool dd670 DDSTU1 inf-srv17 APP-SRV29_1357349451 APP_SRV29 FULL 1 1 1360027851 DiskPool dd670 DDSTU1 inf-srv17 ... (and on for hundreds of entries)
The server APP_SRV29 no longer exists so we certainly don't need to keep these backups (because all backups are for disaster recovery, not historical snapshots). After some more reading, I found documents talking about bpexpdate. Unfortunatetly, using this command gives me "no entry was found":
bpexpdate -backupid APP-SRV29_1357349450 -d 0 Are you SURE you want to delete APP-SRV29_1357349450 y/n (n)? y no entity was found
Oddly, even though the bpimmedia command shows the Policy of APP_SRV29, the bpimagelist shows nothing:
bpimagelist -policy APP_SRV29 no entity was found
I am very frustrated. I have 2.6 TB of backups sitting in my disk pool that I can see but not clean up. Can anyone offer me help on how to delete these backup IDs? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ken