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peterdcross
Level 4
9 years ago

Clearing out non existant backup images.

I have just arrived a t a new contract and have found that the Netbackup server is reporting images on disk that is no longer present. I know I cleared out a similar problem several years ago but cannot remember how I went about it. i.e. images on e:\ which is now a CD drive. Any help please it is a manual clear out that is required. bpexpdate does not work.

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  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    RiaanBadenhorst
    9 years ago

    You're probably seeing the image clean up jobs are reporting errors.

     

    If the images were on E:\xxxx you need to just create E:\xxx again (rename the CDrom to Z:\). Then run nbdelete -allvolumes. It will clean up the images that are stuck.

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    So 'images on disk' report shows a list of images but the disk or folders on disk no longer exist?

    Can you show us a snippet of some image id's and the command that you have used to attempt the expiration?

  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    RiaanBadenhorst
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    You're probably seeing the image clean up jobs are reporting errors.

     

    If the images were on E:\xxxx you need to just create E:\xxx again (rename the CDrom to Z:\). Then run nbdelete -allvolumes. It will clean up the images that are stuck.