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H_Sharma
Level 6
10 years ago

Scratch Media

Hello Experts, We have one tape that is going to expire today in the morning and its afternoon now. Still we could see kilobytes are there in media. Problem is DC in remote place and we dont ha...
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    Nicolai
    10 years ago

    Data Expiration:                01/18/2015 11:02

    The last backup will expire today (my time zone) and then be recycle within 12 hours of that time. Out of the box Netbackup do recycle media every 12 hour.

    You may want to reduce the number of volume pools and retention (if possible)  to get better media utilization. Sometimes those schema has been overengineered without taking in to account different retention and volume pool has a cost of reduce number of concurrent backups and partial full media.

     

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Nicolai
Moderator
10 years ago

Data Expiration:                01/18/2015 11:02

The last backup will expire today (my time zone) and then be recycle within 12 hours of that time. Out of the box Netbackup do recycle media every 12 hour.

You may want to reduce the number of volume pools and retention (if possible)  to get better media utilization. Sometimes those schema has been overengineered without taking in to account different retention and volume pool has a cost of reduce number of concurrent backups and partial full media.