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gnussbaum
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14 years ago

Netbackup 7.0.1 not returning expired media to scratch pool

Hello, I have read the previous posting here but it has not helped me.  I have CHECK_EXPIRED_MEDIA_INTERVAL set to 12 and RETURN_UNASSIGNED_MEDIA_TO_SCRATCH_POOL set to 'yes'.  I have even looked a...
  • Andy_Welburn's avatar
    14 years ago

    As you say they "appear" if you manually run bpexpdate -deassignempty but not automatically during 'cleanup' then maybe this T/N is relevant?

    The bpexpdate -deassignempty command is not being run automatically by the scheduler, and empty tapes, which hold no valid images, are not being made available for backups
    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH135182