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Steve_4
Level 4
9 years ago

Expired disk backup sets not deleting

Hi all, Recently I configured disk backups to run in our environment. After a few runs I noticed that only one of the B2D jobs was filling up the NAS device by quite a few TB over what would be ex...
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Backup and Recovery
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Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    9 years ago
    You will leave them as orphaned entries and you would need to log a support case so that they can be edited out. I am suggesting this so that you can can get back your disk space. Of course, you can get the support engineers to delete the bad backup set from the disk storage for you, along with the other references
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Steve_4
Level 4
9 years ago

Hi pkh,

Isn't the reason for not doing this related to catalogs and backup sets not dissapearing though? What would happen to the catalogs and backup set window after these are removed?

 

Thanks,

Steve