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James_Allen_2
Level 2
18 years ago

Unable to erase B2D media

hello all

Since the installation of some updates (Veritas and Microsoft) to our BackupExec 10d install I am now unable to erase backup to disk media that are no longer required.
When I try to do this, the erase job runs and is reported to have run successfuly, but the B2D files on the server remain at their previous size, instead of reducing to a couple of kilobytes.
We are running 10.1 on Windows 2003 (with R2 extensions for files server management) with these updates:
Service Pack 1
Hotfixes 9, 26, 29, 33, 27, 31

I would be very pleased if anyone has a suggestion to try to get this resolved.
10.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec

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  • James_Allen_2's avatar
    James_Allen_2
    Level 2
    18 years ago
    I have not tried that. I'm not sure I know how (if indeed it is possible) to target a specific B2D files in a backup job - perhaps you could let me know?

    For those I know I do not need any more I have just moved them to the Retired Media group then deleted them.

    For those I didn't want to delete, I found that running an inventory on them reduced their size on disk (rather bizzarely)

    One or two actually got bigger having run an erase job on them.
  • Gauri_Ketkar's avatar
    Gauri_Ketkar
    Level 6
    18 years ago
    Hi,

    run a test backup on the specific B2D and select option "overwrite" in the job properties window .

    Instead of erasing or deleting , a overwrite job is a workaround.


    Update us on the same and revert for any further Query
    Hope this will help you


    Thank you
    Gauri
  • James_Allen_2's avatar
    James_Allen_2
    Level 2
    18 years ago
    thanks for the suggestion.

    The B2D in question has two .bkf files in it.
    First, I tried to erase one of them ( approx 7MB ) - it grew to 53 MB on completion of the erase job.

    Then I ran an overwrite test job backing up just one file to the same B2D. This ran to completion successfully but the .bkf remained the same size (although the used capacity is showing as the size of the file that we backed up.

    My concern is that when I erase a file in any B2D, not just the one I describe above, it grows in size. Is there something you can suggest to find out why?

    thanks
  • shweta_rege's avatar
    shweta_rege
    Level 6
    18 years ago
    Hello,



    Could you tell us, what options did you select in the Properties of the backup to disk folder und the Configuration tab?



    Thank You,


    Shweta