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rfmonteiro
Level 3
9 years ago

How to migrate backups between MSDP's

Hello people. I have a domain with two MSDP but a MSDP this with 89% in use and another 35% in use and I have backups with one-year retention. In this case, I wonder what is the best practice t...
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  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    RiaanBadenhorst
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Unofortunately its not as simple as just expiring images. Since deduplication happens on the container/pool the data you expire might be locked up by other images as its all interlinked.

     

    Try to move quite a large chunk of the data set to the other MSDP. duplicate it and then expire, and then wait for cleanup to happen.

    Sorry can't give a you a definitive fix for this.

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RiaanBadenhorst
Level 6
9 years ago

Hi,

 

First thing would be to move the / some policies to the new MSDP. After that you could duplicate the images from the first to the second MSDP (using bpduplicate or GUI Catalog section).

 

HTH