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day's avatar
day
Level 3
10 years ago

Deleting images manually

The images on disk will be deleted randomly after they are stored on the tapes. I know that many people are using SLPs to control the deletion. Unfortunately I haven't a license for Advanced Disk the...
Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
  • day's avatar
    day
    10 years ago

    And here is my script. 

    #!/bin/sh

    DATE=`which date`
    BPIMMEDIA=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimmedia
    BPEXPDATE=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpexpdate
    NBDELETE=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdelete

    ENDDATE=`${DATE} --date='8 days ago' '+%m/%d/%Y %T'`
    BACKUPIDS=`${BPIMMEDIA} -disk -e ${ENDDATE} -dt 1 | grep '^IMAGE' | awk '{print $4}'`

    for BACKUPID in ${BACKUPIDS}
    do
            ${BPEXPDATE} -force -backupid ${BACKUPID} -d 0 -copy 1 -notimmediate
    done

    ${NBDELETE} -allvolumes

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RamNagalla
Moderator
10 years ago

what is the disk storage unit that you are using?

does it basic disk... if yes why dont you use Disk staging storage option or Vault to get this done... (though disk staging does not work on number of days.. it expires based on how fast it reaches the high water mark.)

they will automate this job without using the any other scripts in place..