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JJ
Level 4
11 years ago

deleting old backups from d2d

Greetings,

Ive made a tape duplicate of an old d2d main backup to save space and now i need to get rid of the d2d copy. Im guessing its not as simple as deleting the virtual tapes or is it? and what if the virtual tapes had been appended to?

 

Thanks

James

2010
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    11 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Don't delete off the D2D itself. Rather navigate to the files within BE itself and erase the files. Once done, if the files haven't been deleted, you can do so.

    Thanks!

  • Kunal_Mudliyar1's avatar
    Kunal_Mudliyar1
    11 years ago

    JJ

    I am thinking you are backing up to a VTL and it has duplicated the data to a physical tape

    To save space you have to simply erase the tape using an erase job

    If you have appended the virtual tape after duplicating it to teh physical tape all the data appended is at a loss.

     

    either wait for the appended data to be expired or erase the Virtual tape and regain your precious space!

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  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Don't delete off the D2D itself. Rather navigate to the files within BE itself and erase the files. Once done, if the files haven't been deleted, you can do so.

    Thanks!

  • JJ's avatar
    JJ
    Level 4
    11 years ago

    Thanks guys. How can i be sure that another backup i want to keep is not on these virtual tapes? Once ive deleted them off BE can i then physically delete the tapes from hard drive?

     

    Cheers

    James 

  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    ...no way to selectively delete information from tapes. It's an all-or-nothing approach. Unless you restore the data elsewhere, delete what you don't need and then back it up. This is a long-way around approach though.

    Thanks!

  • Kunal_Mudliyar1's avatar
    Kunal_Mudliyar1
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    JJ

    I am thinking you are backing up to a VTL and it has duplicated the data to a physical tape

    To save space you have to simply erase the tape using an erase job

    If you have appended the virtual tape after duplicating it to teh physical tape all the data appended is at a loss.

     

    either wait for the appended data to be expired or erase the Virtual tape and regain your precious space!

  • JJ's avatar
    JJ
    Level 4
    11 years ago

    Thanks guys, all these anwers helped.