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khemmerl's avatar
khemmerl
Level 5
11 years ago

How do I delete backups on an old DiskPool

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 usin...
  • mph999's avatar
    11 years ago

    Sorry to hear you are leaving NBU.

    You could just delete the images from the disk directly.  I don't think this will cause any more issues - even on a fully working system, NBU would just delete the images from the catalog even if they aren't on the disk, it might throw an error somewhere but I think that would about be the worst of it.  Seeing you can;t delete the images, it'll just stay in that state, so you might as well reclaim some disk space manually.

    Unfortunatley, unless one of the others comes up with some bright ideas I'm a bit stuck - this has got a bit 'complex' for a forum issue, needs to be a bit more hands on to make progress I think.