Hello Upgraded from Be2012 to Be2014, and absolutely hate there is no way of manually deleting backup sets. The backup strategy is backup to disk (1 week retention) and immedietly duplicate to tape (4 week retention). The problem I seem to have, is that the expired disk based backup chain thinks the duplicated non expired tape chain is a dependancy, and will not remove itself during the storage grooming process. So the HDD storage is filling up with expired backup chains, that can't be deleted. I would easily remove them manually if I could, but the that functionality has been removed. I will try recreating all the jobs, but its a huge nuisance. Has anyone had the same problem?

From the Backup & Restore tab and then choosing particular server or from the Storage tab, choose the option "Backup Sets" from the left pane. Right-click a single or multiple backup sets and you would have the option "Expire" which would expire backup sets immediately.

I do this. and no result. how long expired backup sets will be remove? i do: "To manually delete a backup set in 2014, go to Backup Exec button > Configuration and Settings > Backup Exec Settings > Storage and enable the,'Allow Backup Exec to delete all expired backup sets,' option. Then proceed to Expire (delete) the selected backup sets."

Hi Let me rephrase this. There is a chain of backups (Full + incrementals) on HDD based storage, which were all replicated to tape. So the HDD ones have all expired already, but the duplicates on tape have not expired, as they have a different retention. If I right click on the Full backup on the HDD & "Show Dependant Backup Sets" it lists all the expired ones on disk BUT it also lists all the ones on tape as dependants. Because there are dependants, it will not get deleted, and there is no way to manually choose & delete. The only thing to do is to expire the tape backup sets.

Please log a formal support case for this so that we can investigate more thoroughly

I had a talk to a Symantec support engineer while on a different case, and he suggested Hotfix 218257. Hasn't fixed the issue as of yet.

No easy way of removing backup sets in BE2014

VJware
Level 6
11 years ago
From the Backup & Restore tab and then choosing particular server or from the Storage tab, choose the option "Backup Sets" from the left pane.

Right-click a single or multiple backup sets and you would have the option "Expire" which would expire backup sets immediately.
Tauqeer
Level 3
11 years ago
I do this. and no result.
how long expired backup sets will be remove?

i do:

"To manually delete a backup set in 2014, go to Backup Exec button > Configuration and Settings > Backup Exec Settings > Storage and enable the,'Allow Backup Exec to delete all expired backup sets,' option. Then proceed to Expire (delete) the selected backup sets."
PrisonerZero
Level 3
11 years ago
Hi

Let me rephrase this.

There is a chain of backups (Full + incrementals) on HDD based storage, which were all replicated to tape. So the HDD ones have all expired already, but the duplicates on tape have not expired, as they have a different retention.

If I right click on the Full backup on the HDD & "Show Dependant Backup Sets" it lists all the expired ones on disk BUT it also lists all the ones on tape as dependants. Because there are dependants, it will not get deleted, and there is no way to manually choose & delete.

The only thing to do is to expire the tape backup sets.
Colin_Weaver
Moderator
11 years ago
Please log a formal support case for this so that we can investigate more thoroughly
PrisonerZero
Level 3
11 years ago
I had a talk to a Symantec support engineer while on a different case, and he suggested Hotfix 218257.

Hasn't fixed the issue as of yet.
PrisonerZero
Level 3
11 years ago
Ive raised a case, and they suggested Hotifx 217591. Unfortunetly this did not fix this problem either. HDD is filling up fast with expired backups which do not go away.
PrisonerZero
Level 3
11 years ago
I have just gotten off the phone to Symantec Support. He could not help me with this, and informed me

The program was designed this way, that backup chains duplicated to tape, still need the original full disk backup.

To delete backup set files manually through explorer.

Its not an option to go hunting around for expired backup sets, I don't have the time and its not something I should have to do.

This makes the program fundumentally broken.
ArtyVark
Level 3
11 years ago
Dont want to hijack this thread but I have a similiar problem. I have just upgraded from Backup Exec 2010 to 2014 and I have a number of backups that have expired but are not being re-used/removed like previous.

There is no delete button either. It seems to have been replaced by an Expired button but this does do anything as the sets are already expired. I just want to delete them.

The other thing I dont like is with 2010 you could actually see the backups that had expired being re-used but on 2014 you dont seem to see this.
ArtyVark
Level 3
11 years ago
So were they saying to delete using explorer then do an inventory to update BE 2014 ?

Also where did you get Hotfix 217591 from ?
PrisonerZero
Level 3
11 years ago
The Symantec Rep. gave me the link.