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NIKHIL234656595
Level 6
13 years ago

What is image clean up job in Netbackup?

Hi,   What is image clean up job in Netbackup? Can u explain in detail?
7.1.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
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  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    13 years ago

    Adding further details to Marianne excellent answer:

    The image cleanup job runs by default, every 12 hours.

    It runs these commands:

     

    1)  bpimage -cleanup -allclients - image cleanup : Deletes expired images
    2)  bpexpdate -deassignempty -force : Expires empty tapes
     
    The following cleanup also runs, every 10 minutes, this is NOT seen in Activity Monitor
     
    bptm -delete_all_expired : this expires any tapes with EMM image expiration times that have passed.
    (when a tape 'expires' it is set to 'expired', this bptm job actualy expires it).
     
    Martin