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LeeSony's avatar
LeeSony
Level 3
7 years ago

basic disk retention level

I have created a BasicDisk (no license to do anything else). Policy created to backup to the basic disk with infinite retention period. From the basic disk I have staging schedule to copy the backups...
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    7 years ago

    Both backup copies (disk and tape) have INFINITY retention. 

    The reference to '2 weeks' in the staging job is a 'red herring'. You can ignore it.

    The retention in the disk staging config is linked to the DSSU Frequency. 
    See this: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/123711489-126541862-0/v41615072-126541862

     Internally, NetBackup uses the retention level 1 setting for scheduling purposes with disk staging storage units.....
    ...
    Make sure that the frequency period is set to make the backups occur more frequently than the retention level 1 setting indicates. (The default is two weeks.)

     

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LeeSony
Level 3

Output of D:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpimagelist -backupid celont85.i
nternal.scee.net_1526681174 -L > test.txt

below
Client:            celont85.internal.scee.net
Backup ID:         celont85.internal.scee.net_1526681174
Policy:            Windows-Fast-Disk
Policy Type:       MS-Windows (13)
Proxy Client:      (none specified)
Creator:           root
Name1:             (none specified)
Sched Label:       Full
Schedule Type:     FULL (0)
Retention Level:   infinity (9)
Backup Time:            18/05/2018 23:06:14 (1526681174)
Elapsed Time:      3639 second(s)
Expiration Time:             INFINITY       (2147483647)
Maximum Expiration Time:             INFINITY       (2147483647)
Compressed:        no
Client Encrypted:  no
Kilobytes:         28652769
Number of Files:   86672
Number of Copies:  2
Number of Fragments:   6
Histogram:         0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DB Compressed:     no
Files File Name:   Windows-Fast-Disk_1526681174_FULL.f
Previous Backup Files File Name:   (none specified)
Parent Backup Image File Name:   (none specified)
SW Version:        (none specified)
Options:           0x0
MPX:               1
TIR Info:          0
TIR Expiration:         01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
Keyword:           (none specified)
Ext Security Info: no
File Restore Raw:  no
Image Dump Level:  0
File System Only:  no
Object Descriptor: (none specified)
Previous BI Time:       01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
BI Full Time:           01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
Request Pid:       0
Backup Status:     0
Stream Number:     2
Backup Copy:       Standard (0)
Files File size:     10836536
PFI type:     0
IMAGE_ATTRIBUTE:     0
Primary Copy:      1
Image Type:        0  (Regular)
Job ID:            804253
Num Resumes:       1
Resume Expiration:      01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
Data Classification:    (none specified)
Data_Classification_ID: (none specified)
Storage Lifecycle Policy:    (none specified)
Storage Lifecycle Policy Version:    0
STL_Completed:      0
Remote Expiration Time:      01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
Origin Master Server:  (none specified)
Origin Master GUID:    (none specified)
Snap Time:           18/05/2018 21:17:54 (1526674674)
IR Enabled:      no
Client Character Set:     1
Image On Hold:     0
Kilobytes Data Transferred:   0
Copy number:       1
 Fragment:         1
 Kilobytes:        9812224
 Remainder:        0
 Media Type:       Disk (0)
 Density:          qscsi (0)
 File Num:         0
 ID:               G:\Netbackup-DiskStageG\\celont85.internal.scee.net_1526681174_C1_F1
 Host:             celont62.internal.scee.net
 Block Size:       262144
 Offset:           0
 Media Date:            01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
 Dev Written On:   -1
 Flags:            0x0 
 Media Descriptor:        celont62.internal.scee.net
 Expiration Time:            INFINITY       (2147483647)
 MPX:              0
 retention_lvl:    infinity (9)
 Try to Keep Time:       01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
 Copy Creation Time:       19/05/2018 00:06:53 (1526684813)
 Data Format:      Tar
 checkpoint:       1
 resume num:       0
 Key tag:          *NULL*
 STL tag:          *NULL*
 Copy on hold:     0
Copy number:       1
 Fragment:         2
 Kilobytes:        8036864
 Remainder:        0
 Media Type:       Disk (0)
 Density:          qscsi (0)
 File Num:         0
 ID:               G:\Netbackup-DiskStageG\\celont85.internal.scee.net_1526681174_C1_F2
 Host:             celont62.internal.scee.net
 Block Size:       262144
 Offset:           0
 Media Date:            01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
 Dev Written On:   -1
 Flags:            0x0 
 Media Descriptor:        celont62.internal.scee.net
 checkpoint:       1
 resume num:       0
 Copy on hold:     0
Copy number:       1
 Fragment:         3
 Kilobytes:        3250688
 Remainder:        0
 Media Type:       Disk (0)
 Density:          qscsi (0)
 File Num:         0
 ID:               G:\Netbackup-DiskStageG\\celont85.internal.scee.net_1526681174_C1_F3
 Host:             celont62.internal.scee.net
 Block Size:       262144
 Offset:           0
 Media Date:            01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
 Dev Written On:   -1
 Flags:            0x0 
 Media Descriptor:        celont62.internal.scee.net
 checkpoint:       1
 resume num:       0
 Copy on hold:     0
Copy number:       1
 Fragment:         4
 Kilobytes:        7203072
 Remainder:        0
 Media Type:       Disk (0)
 Density:          qscsi (0)
 File Num:         0
 ID:               G:\Netbackup-DiskStageG\\celont85.internal.scee.net_1526681174_C1_F4
 Host:             celont62.internal.scee.net
 Block Size:       262144
 Offset:           0
 Media Date:            01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
 Dev Written On:   -1
 Flags:            0x0 
 Media Descriptor:        celont62.internal.scee.net
 checkpoint:       1
 resume num:       0
 Copy on hold:     0
Copy number:       1
 Fragment:         5
 Kilobytes:        349921
 Remainder:        0
 Media Type:       Disk (0)
 Density:          qscsi (0)
 File Num:         0
 ID:               G:\Netbackup-DiskStageG\\celont85.internal.scee.net_1526681174_C1_F5
 Host:             celont62.internal.scee.net
 Block Size:       262144
 Offset:           0
 Media Date:            01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
 Dev Written On:   -1
 Flags:            0x0 
 Media Descriptor:        celont62.internal.scee.net
 checkpoint:       0
 resume num:       0
 Copy on hold:     0
Copy number:       2
 Fragment:         1
 Kilobytes:        28652769
 Remainder:        0
 Media Type:       Media Manager (2)
 Density:          dlt3 (21)
 File Num:         23
 ID:               JB7894
 Host:             celont64.internal.scee.net
 Block Size:       65536
 Offset:           10684307
 Media Date:            18/05/2018 18:00:23 (1526662823)
 Dev Written On:   3
 Flags:            0x0 
 Media Descriptor:        ?
 Expiration Time:            INFINITY       (2147483647)
 MPX:              0
 retention_lvl:    infinity (9)
 Try to Keep Time:       01/01/1970 00:00:00 (0)
 Copy Creation Time:       21/05/2018 13:32:36 (1526905956)
 Data Format:      Tar
 checkpoint:       0
 resume num:       1
 Key tag:          *NULL*
 STL tag:          *NULL*
 Copy on hold:     0

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
7 years ago

Both backup copies (disk and tape) have INFINITY retention. 

The reference to '2 weeks' in the staging job is a 'red herring'. You can ignore it.

The retention in the disk staging config is linked to the DSSU Frequency. 
See this: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/123711489-126541862-0/v41615072-126541862

 Internally, NetBackup uses the retention level 1 setting for scheduling purposes with disk staging storage units.....
...
Make sure that the frequency period is set to make the backups occur more frequently than the retention level 1 setting indicates. (The default is two weeks.)

 

  • LeeSony's avatar
    LeeSony
    Level 3
    7 years ago

    thanks very much Marianne

    From the output of the commands you sent over I can see both the backup to disk and backup to tape are using inifinate retention, it's just the backup job shows 2 weeks (maybe by default).