Disk based backups issue

[sharan]

hi All

we have a issue in disk based backup, we are trying to backup a 400 GB of data,(its a Flat file backup Local drive backups of a client), the backup job at the first attempt wrote 200 GB and failed with File write error, it took second attempt and completed successfully, but the space that it has utilised is more than 600 GB, can some one let us know how this sidka based backups are written? and also if there are any multiple attempts will teh disk be more utilised, what are the nxt possible solutions for this?

Thanks

sharath

[Mark_Solutions]

Hi

If a jobs failed completely it should delete the images from disk after the failure.

If the job was using checkpoint restart and was left as "incomplete" it will leave the disk images in place until that jobs is cancelled or automatically cancels itself after a period of time (defined in Master Server host properties).

The disks are also cleaned up regularly when Image Cleanup Jobs run - if you want to fire this off manually just run:

bpimage -cleanup -allclients

So check there are no jobs in an "Incomplete" or "Waiting for Retry" state that could be holding the images on disk and then run the Image Cleanup command.

Other than that check exactly how much data has been backed up according to the job details.

If a server has a disk that appears to have 400GB of data on it but the file system is compressed then 600GB of data could well be written to the disk storage unit

Hope this helps

[sharan]

Excellent thanks for the Info Mark, we have jobs with incomplete state might be this is causing the issue.

[Mark_Solutions · Accepted solution]

Ok - would be nice if you marked the answer that helped as the solution rather than your own to assist people in the future