I am facing a very strange problem .Just to give you some background My Netbackup Master Server (cum Media Server) is at 7.1.0.1 Version and runs on Red Hat Linux . We use Storage Life Cycle policies. Intially the Backup Images are written onto the Disk which are duplicated to the Tape Media. I export the FULL Media every alternate day.. No Vault is being used.. Doing it Manually . Images on the Media are kept at 1 Month Retention
Now coming to the Issue, there are some Media whose Retention Period which shows up as 1 Month(as it should be .. Lets say the Last Written Date on the Tape was August 15th.. the Expiration is set to 1 Month after that. Sept 14th.. However a few media show up as Scratch the very next. As per the common understanding in NBU.. even if there is a single Image which has not crossed the Expiry date will not move into Scratch unless and until it gets expired. Again this is not happening with all the Media but only a couple of them and am at loss to understand because just within one day the tapes are showing up under Scratch. Also I myself take care of this Environment and nobody else can manually expire the images .
