MSDP mount point reaches 90%
Hello Experts,
One of my MSDP mount point reaches to 90%.
XXXXXXXX:/msdp/data/dp1/3pdvol # df -h
/dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/XXXX 4.1T 3.7T 443G 90% /msdp/data/dp1/XXXXX
There are many containers under questioned mount point and when I open one container, I see the files of dated 2020 but here we have local retention of 35 days only
xxxxxxx:/msdp/data/dp1/xxxxx/xxxx # ll
total 24689784
-rw-r----- 1 root root 25876 May 14 2020 1012738.bhd
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1176717 May 14 2020 1012738.bin
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1288612 Mar 14 2020 1012739.bhd
-rw-r----- 1 root root 67107160 Mar 14 2020 1012739.bin
-rw-r----- 1 root root 975520 May 14 2020 1012740.bhd
-rw-r----- 1 root root 48299517 May 14 2020 1012740.bin
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1621792 Mar 14 2020 1012741.bhd
-rw-r----- 1 root root 67107676 Mar 14 2020 1012741.bin
May be These files must be having references for other images hence they are not deleted but still my query is we have retention of 35 days only, it shouldn't show this much older data.
hi Dav1234
Containers from 2020 can easily contain data block present in 2020 that is still present in 2023. Let's imagine you did a backup of a host in 2020 and still backup that host today, then data block from that time is still required to perform a restore today. Dedupe is basically a compare of unique fingerprint, do I have it, reference it, if not put it in a container file. First when the reference count to a data block is 0, is the data block removed from the container files.
Never ever delete files manual from MSDP. Bad things will happen ;)
Correct, the files will not be deleted before all the unique data block (Image data) contained in the files are deleted.
/Nicolai
