BE2012 Dedupe Disk Full
Hi - Our 17TB dedupe disk is full and has a lot of very old expired backup sets of servers that were decommissioned 2 years ago. I have spent 2 days reading through every available KB article and forum post I can find relating to this, and have tried all recommendations without success. And yes, I have read TECH130103.
I have 2 major issues:
1. I need to clear the old backup sets out - I have added in the registry DWORD to allow removal of expired backup sets - no difference 24 hours later. Manually deleted some old sets - still there this morning. So how does that work?
2. Frequent running of "crcontrol --processqueue" finishes almost instantly, and "crcontrol --processqueueinfo" shows Busy=No, Pending=Yes, and I can't clear the Pending ones. I think they are tape jobs I have some with the status of Ready: No device available. How do I clear them? Putting the queue on hold makes no difference.
Is there a reasn why I can't run the dedupe compression with pending jobs on hold? I have removed a lot of stale jobs from BE including those that relate to some of the old backup sets. We now have around 220 jobs.
I have recently taken over responsibility for our backups and this is my first (and hopefully last) experience with Backup Exec. We may look to upgrade to 2015, but we are migrating to a different environment in the next 3 - 12 months so are not sure if the cost benefit is there and so I have to make this work but it's driving me nuts!
We are now in the process of proposing a 2015 upgrade so I'm hopeful we'll get a result. In the meantime I have been running the dedupe cleardown manually, and do seem to be making progress - albeit painfully slowly. The processes have taken several days to run and the garbage collection - running now - is going to take time. Then will run the compression which should give me back 650GB at least according to dsstat.
Many thanks for the advice given.